Stories of Paraná - The sepultos the Serra do Mar

Stories of Paraná - The sepultos the Serra do Mar

The sepultos the Serra do Mar
Daniel Jacobus Fabri

Once, taking me by train to Paranagua, my grandfather told me that his grandfather called Giacommo, was buried somewhere in the Serra do Mar, near the railroad, the place he showed me when our wagon by spent there.
In fact, the Giacommo come from Italy with many companions and their young families.
The beginning of foreign colonization in the Province of Parana date 1869, when the first immigrants who settled in Curitiba in Cologne Algeria (Boa Vista neighborhood) and in the current quarter Pilarzinho.
However, by 1873, such a Sabrino Tripotti, smart businessman colonization through the famous pamphlet "Amico Colonno" spread to thousands in Italy, managed to convince hundreds of families to immigrate to Paraná, going to settle in Alexandra in Seaside.
Still excited by Tripotti pamphlet in 1877 came hundreds of colonists who settled in Morretes, founding ah multicore, including the most famous with the name of Colonia New Italy.
However, adverse weather, and other factors insalubridades, became almost impassable survival of these colonies.
Because of this, such nuclei in Morretes and Alexandra, held in the shadow of workers "that there were executed on behalf of the Government and the expectation of development that should bring Iron Roads". (Cf.
João José Pedrosa).
To get an idea of ​​the number of people, immigrants or not, who worked in the construction of this railroad, tells us Baron Capanema: "Dr. Teixeira Soares, to maintain services
3,000 workers, will marshal 9,000, of which 5,000 remained for more patients. "
It is not known how many died.
But the main cause of death was yellow fever, followed by work accident.
To imagine the number of accidents, fatal or not, just go through the passage of the Serra do Mar, and watch the bridges, viaducts and tunnels built there.
Malaria also is not known, but we know that Nonno Giacommo not die from this evil, but because he thought, taking the whole bottle of medicine against the malady at once, would heal immediately.
Pure mistake.
He left a widow and two beautiful young children.
With the completion of the railroad in December 1884, many immigrants have survived and spread to Curitiba and Paraná inside.
Others, like the Giacommos, Pietros, Giuseppi and "eticeteras" sepultos the Serra do Mar, just left his "seed" which enriched and today constitute the vast majority of descendants of Italian immigrants intrepid and unknown.

Daniel Jacobus Fabri, chemical engineer


Source: Stories of Paraná, Brasil.