Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-10-06
BULL FIGHT IN KANSAS CITY.
The Satanic sports Of the Brutal
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Damaged Nose for senate r Schurz.

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Damaged Nose for senator Schurz
From Sundays Kansas City (Mo.) Bulletin.l
For the past two weeks the city has
been posted with bills announcing a
Spanish bull fight, which was first an
nounced to take place last Saturday, but
owing to the rainy weather was post
poned until to-day. The animals mean
while were kept in halfstarved condi-
ton, until the next time appointed for
the brutal exhibition, which was yester-
day.
In company with representatives Of
other morning papers, we visited the
Driving Park, where we found strong
bull pen had been erected, in size about
thirty feet square and about eight feet
in hight. About this pen tiers Of seats
had been built, so as to enable the spec
tators to view the expected gouging
of the ferocious animals.
If we had any expectations Of witness
ing a fight, they were dispelled by the
first sight of the bulls. Poor lean, dis
pirited victims to brutal mob; neither
of them was larger than n two-year old
heifer, and too weak even to work, much
less to fight, ifthey ever had any disposi-
ton to fight, it was all worked out OF
them in their trip over the plains from
Texas.
One of the poor brutes was tied to a
corner, the other was kept in little pen.
A party of butchers arrived, bringing a
quantity OF blood which was thrown upon
the ground.
A party of whippers then stood around
the arena and proceeded to whip the
little Texan, goadingit to desperation by
sticking number of spikes into it, which
sunk into the hide of the terrified brute,
and hung to it, the blood oozing out from
its skeleton-looking frame.
After the outside animal had been tor
tured about one hour, amid the cheers
and laughter of the brutalized assem-
blage, the second bull was driven out of
its pen, and the animals met, but from
the manner of their meeting it was evi-
dent that they had met before, and under
the yoke, for neither exhibited the least
inclination to fight.
Now followeda a scene which for cruelty,
torture and damnable brutality has never
been excelled either in this or any other
other age; a piece of cruelty to animals
that should be denounced with the exc
crations Of civilized community. Find
ing the poor halfstarved brutes would
not tear and rend each other with their
sharp horns, number Of men and boys,
armed with whips, stood over the small
est animal, and, from the platform above
it, whipped the bull until it fell to the
earth, where, for fully half an hour, the
prostrate animal was whipped by detail
until its eyes were whipped out.
The other brute having 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 gouged its eyes from their sock
poor brute believing pitifully in
its anguish. Fully fifteen minutes were
consumed in this horrible sport. The
brutal torturers finally 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
Of Providence. A part of
the spectators gallery gave way, precip-
itating the occupants to the earth in one
mass of humanity, brutality
and pine lumber.
Among the crowd which fell with the
scaffolding we're Senator Carl Schurz,
Congressman Van Horn and their friends,
who, in company with Major Z. NJ.
McGee, had driven out TO see the fight.
No one was very seriously hurt. Senator
Schurz escaped with q damaged nose,
aud others with slight bruises.