The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-10-07
" WILD WESTERN SPORTS.
a llideOus Bull.FIEht Mt Kansas City
7-if.- ~ The House, Comes Down.
III .j@EiiH -Is L-rt 's
.o,, CARL sCHURz DISMANTLED.
From Sunday s Kansas City (Mo.) Bulletin.

| From Sundays Kansas City (Mo.) Bulletin
For the past two weeks the city has
been posted with bills announcing q
| Spanish bull fight, which was first an
nounced TO take place last Saturday,
postponed until to-day. The animals,
meanwhile, were kept in half-starved
condition, until the time next appoint.
ed for the brutal exhibition, which was
yesterday .3.r 1-la r
In company with representatives of
other morning papers, We visited the
Driving Park, where we found strong
l. coc BULL PEN ta
had been erected, in size about thirty
fect square, and about eight feet in
height. Above this pen tiers of seats
had been built, 80 as to enable the spec
tators to view the expected gouging and
tearing of the ferocious animals.
Ascending the raised dais or platform
we found q mottly crowd of spectators,
among whom we noticed some of our
most respectable citizens, drawn thith-
er, no doubt, by the novelty of the idea
of a genuine Spanish bull fight.
THE ANIMALS.
If we had any expectation of witness
ing fight, they were dispelled by the
first sight of the bulls. Poor, lean, dis
pirited victims of brutal mob, neither
of them was larger than two-year old
heifer, and were too weak even to walk,
much less to fight. If they ever had
any disposition to fight, it was all
worked out Of them in their trip over
the plains from Texas.
PREPARATIONS. |
One of the poor brutes was tied to a
corner, the other was kept In q little
pen. A party Of butchers arrived on
the ground, bringing a quantity of
blood, which was thrown upon the
ground. io' !
A party of whippers then stood around
the arena, and proceeded to whip the |
little Texan, goading it to desperation |
by sticking number of spikes into it, |
which sunk into the hide of the terrif- |
ed brute, and hung to it, the blood oOz-
ing out from its skeletOn-loOking frame.
-Bipf THE CoMBATANTS MEET.
After the outside animal had been
tortured about one hour, amid the
cheers and laughter of the brutalized
the second bull was driven
out of the pen, and the animals met,
but from the manner of their meeting
it was evident they had met before,
and under the yoke, for neither ex-
hibited the least inclination to fight.
DIABoLICAL ATRoCITY.
Now followed a scene which, for cru
city, torture, and damnable brutality,
has never been excelled either in this
or any other age; a piece of cruelty to
that should be denounced with
the execrations of q civilized commu-
nifty. Finding the poor, half-starved
brutes would not tear and 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 it fell to the earth, where,
for fully half an hour, the PROSTATE an
imal 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
gouged its eyes from their
sockets, the poor brute believing pitt
fully in its anguish. Fully fifteen min
utes were consumed in this horrible
sport. The brutal torturers finally de-
sisted from pure exhaustion, and the
and blinded animals staggered |
around moaning with anguish.
sod THE PLATFORM GIVES WAY.
How long the horrid scene would
have continued we know not, but by q
divine dispensatiOn Of Providence q
part of the spectators gallery gave way,
the occupants to the earth
IN one promiscuous heap of humanity,
and pine lumber. II
CARL sCHURz INJURED. n +
Among the crowd which fell with
he scaffolding were Senator Carl
5churz, Congressman Van Horn and
their friends, who, in company with
Mayor e. n. McGee, bad driven out to
zee the fight. We are happy to say no |
me was very seriously hurt. Senator +,
,churz escaped with a damaged nose,
md others with slight bruises. |,
WHO is RESPONSIBLE?
Considerable complaint was made ..
Igainst the proprietors of the affair, be- :
,ause the bulls refused to fight. Search
vas made for the gate-keeper for the /
,urpose of compelling q refIlndiDg of t
he admission fee, but he had disap- t
'eared with the money-box under his '
rm. This was no more than right II
he crow d paid for brutal exhibition Il
nd they got one. ?
There Is responsibility resting upon d
he city government that cannot be n
yaded. II rests with them, as law a