Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-10-13
4 Bull Fight in Kansas City.
From the Kansas city NO Bulletin.


For the past two weeks the city has been
posted with bills announcing Spanish bull
| fight, which was first announced to take
place last Saturday, but owing to the rainy
weather was postponed until to-day The
animals meanwhile were kept in a half
starved condition, until the time next APP
pointed for their brutal exhibition, which
was yesterday, In company with repre-
sentatives OF other morning papers, we
visited the driving park, where We found a
strong bull pen had been erected, in size
about thirty feet square, and about eight
feet in height. About this pen tiers of
seats had been built, so as to enable the
spectators to view the expected goring and
tearing of the ferocious animals If We
had any expectations of witnessing a fight,
they were dispelled by the first sight ofthe
bulls Poor, lean, dispirited victims of q
brutal mob; neither Of them Was larger
than two.year old heiter, and too weak to
even walk, much less to fight II they
ever had any disposition to fight it was all
worked out Of them on their trip over the
plains from Texas.
One of the poor brutes was tied to COR
ner, the other was kept in little pen A
party Of butchers arrived on the ground
bringing a quantity of blood which was
thrown upon the ground 4 party Of whip
pers then stood aroundthe arena and pro-
ceeded to whip the little Texan, goadiug it
to desperation by sticking number of
spikes into ii, which sunk into the hide OF
the terri led brute, and hung to it, the
blood oozing out from the skeleton look
ing frame After the outside animal had
been tortured about one hour amid the
cheers and laughter Of the brutalized as.
semblage the second bull was driven out
of it's pen, and the animals met but from
the manner OF their meeting. it was evil
dent they had met before, and under the
yoke, for neither exhibited the least incl.-
nation to fight
Now followed a scene which for cruelty,
torture and damnable brutality has never
been excelled either in this or any other
age; q piece of cruelty to animals that
should be denounced with the eXecrations
of a civilized community. Finding the
poor hali-starved orutes would not tear
and rend each other with their sharp horns,
j number of men and boys, armed with
WHIPS, StOOd over tHe NulAilbSl bulilhl' bL'
from the platform above it whipped the bull
until it fell to the earth, where for fully
half an hour the PROSTATE animal was
whipped by detail until its eyes were
whipped out, The other brute hay-
ing been lassoed was drawn TO the
platform by party Of human beasts,
more beastly than the beast itself and
held while two of their number gOuped its
eyes from their sockets, the poor brute bell
lowing pittully in its anguish. Fnlly if-
teen minutes we're consumed in this hor-
rble sport. The brutal torturers tiaally
desisted from pure exhaustion, and the
bleeding and blinded animals staggered
around moaning with anguish. How long
the horrid scene would have continued We
know not, but for the divine dispensation
Of Providence. A part Of the spectators
gallery gave way, precipitating the occu-
pants to the earth in one promiscuous
heap of humanity, brutality and pine lum-