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My great-grandfather Manuel tells us that in the inconvenience to the section of the common graves
1920s (1920) many people suddenly began to die in of the pantheon. Don Carlos gave the green light
the border cities of Juarez and El Paso. Bodies were and that avenue was built.
piling up outside hospitals and clinics due to the
To surround the area of "luxurious" tombs, a fence
spread of a virus they called Spanish Fever.
was erected that remained as a barrier of two wide
Symptoms such as very high fever and increased
curves that went up to 18th Street. The
heart rate caused them to fall into bed and then die
inauguration was applauded by all the residents of
in a short time without giving the doctors a chance
those neighborhoods
to apply any type of treatment. The few funeral
homes could not cope with burying people with because they saved a lot of time. It did not take
dignity because the only cemetery available was long for the first apparitions to appear because the
the Chaveña Municipal Cemetery. This space was lighting system was not working. Neighbors saw
insufficient and after three years the bodies of the shadows on the sides of the avenue and causing
poorest people were left and were forgotten in fear to drivers.
common graves.
It was on the first day of November 1948 that the
It was the year of 1948 when Carlos Villarreal was first fatal accident was recorded. An urban truck
president and he was paving streets in the Chaveña passed around midnight with the last trip of the
neighborhood, one of the most traditional and maquiladoras at kilometer 5. It was "well loaded"
popular in the City. it was very abandoned and with more than 50 passengers.
nobody gave them maintenance.
He was going uphill and to take advantage of "the
They say that President Carlos Villarreal was a very flight" he accelerated a little more before reaching
energetic and stubborn person because when the curve of the pantheon. Since it did not look
"something was put into his head" he would not let very good because it was very dark, it was loaded
it. The construction company proposed the project to the right side and not hit with the central ridge
to connect two important avenues with and steel a little more.
Legend of the Death Curve (Chaveña Pantheon)
Author Alejandra Reyes 3C
Upon reaching the second curve, he suddenly saw a
couple of women in the middle of the street, which
made the driver turn the steering wheel of the
truck sharply, causing it to overturn and crash
directly into the wall of the pantheon. Among the
passengers, most of them “maquila” employees,
several deaths and serious injuries resulted.