The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-10-01
a Bull FIGHT III Kazsss CITY.
The Sat anic Sports OF u ErutnIized hob i'm
Missouri.
From the Kansas city tMo.A Bulletin.

From the Kansas CITY lMoA BuetnI
For the PAST two weeks the city has been posted
With bills announcing spanish bull fight, which
was first announced 10 take place last Saturday, but
owing to the rainy weather was postponed until to.
starved condition, until the time next appointed for
their brutal exhibition which was yesterday In
company with representatives Of other morning
papers we visited the Driving Park, where we found
strong bull per- 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 tile spectators to view the expected gearing
and tearing OF the ferocious animals Ii we had
any expectations OF witnessing hight they were
dispelied by the first sight OF the bulls.
Poor lean dispirited victims to a brutal
mob, neither Of them was larger than
much less 10 light; il they ever had any disposition
TO fight 1t was Gil worked out Of them In their trip
over the plains from Texas. One OF the poor brutes
was tied to corner; the other was kept in little
pen. A party OF butchers arrived on the ground
bringing quantity Of blood which was thrown upon
the ground. party or whppers then stood around
the arena ana proceeded to whip the little Texan,
goadng 1t TO desperation by sticking number OF
spikes into it, which sunk into the hide OF the terri
fled brute and hung to it, the hood Oozing out from
the Skelcton-lOOkng frame. After the outside ami
NAL had been tortured ABOUT one hour, amid the
cheers and laughter Of the Drutaized assemblage
the second bull was driven out of Its pen, The
animals met, but from the manner or their meeting
1t was evident they had met before, and under the
YOKE for neither exhibited the least inclination to
fight. Now followed a scene which for cruelty tor
ture ana damnable brutality mas never been excelled
either IN this or any other AGA piece OF cruelty
to ANIMALS that should be denounced with the
eXecratons OF civilized community Finding the
poor nali-staryed brutes would not tear ana rend
each other with their sharp horns number Of men
and boys, armed with whips stood over the smallest
animal, and from the platform above it whipped
the bull until 1t fell to the eart where Tor fully half
an hour the PROSTATE animal was whipped by de-
tail until its eyes were whipped out. The other
brute having been laSsOed was drawn to the plat
form by party OF human beasts, more beaStly than
the beast Itself, and held, While two OF their number
gouged its eyes from their sockets the poor brute
believing pltullY Ill It's anguish. Fully fifteen
minutes were consumed in this horrible sport. The
brutal torturers finally desisted from pure exhaus.
ton, and tile bleeding and blinded animals staggered
around moaning with anguish. How long the hor-
rid scene would have continued we know not but
for the divine dispensation OF Providence. A part
of the spectators gallery gave way, precipitatng the
occupants to the earth In one promiscuouS heap OF
humanity, brutality and pine LUMBER.