The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1879-03-07

Graphic Description Of u Mexican Bull-Fight
Five Persons G0red tn Death.


Graphic Description Of a Mexican Bull Fight
Five Persons Gored tn Death.
From the San Francisco Chronicle.l
1t was splendid animal, well knit,
strong and powerful. 1t seemed to
comprehend the situation mt once, for
with loud tone it beloved forth its
defiance to it's antagonist, and then,
with head lowered to the ground, COM
menced paving the earth and giving
demonstrations of speedily commencing
the combat. The attendants waved
their red flags before it, and irritated it
still more by prodding it with their
sharp-pointed lances. Our hero closely
watched its every movement With keen
and intense interest, evidently aware
that it might make a sudden rush at
any moment. With roar that APP
peared to shake the very earth, and that
certainly threw terror into every heart
in that audience, it sprung forward,
lowering its head with the design of
tossing the Mexican into the air; but
the attempt was failure, for he sprung
quickly to one side, and, goading with
his staff the now-incensed animal into
state of fury rs it passed him, nerved
himself for the more serious part Of the
conflict admired his fearlessness,
and saw that he was a man of daring
courage that would never falter in any
emergency.
Two or three times the bull renewed
the attack with no better result, and,
every time he escaped the lunge of the
animal, the audience shouted and
cheered loudly, appearing to have over
come the presentiment OF evil, and hav-
ing full confidence IN his ability to win
the victory whenever he chose TO do SO.
It would hardly be credited that the
countenance of bull could vary in its
expression, but il certainly appeared as
if intense rage and demoniacal hate
stood out upon every hair on its face,
and, tie more it was baffied in its at
tempts to gore its intended victim, the
deeper and wiAder became that express
sion of vicious propensity. One of the
attendants gave the bull a more severe
thrust than he intended to do, when it
turned so suddenly upon him that, be-
fore he could evade the attack, the ami
NAL had him upon its horns, and, rip
ping the body open with the exertion,
tossed him high in the air, while his
blood spouted out upon its face. The
man fell with heavy thud upon the
soil, and in an instant the bull was gor-
ing him again. In vain the others tried
to divert its attention from the man, or
endeavored to rescue their fallen COM
panion from his terrible fate. In less
time than it requires to narrate the cpl
sode the poor fellow was lifeless
corpse.
It was a soul-sickening sight. Some
of the women tainted at once, while the
others screamed in terror and hor-
ror at the scene. All this COM
motion, combined with the scent of
fresh blood, wrought the bull into a
state of frenzy, and it swept around and
and rapidity that the men could with
difficulty escape from its rushing at
tacks. The cry was given to open the
gate and let the bull pass out into the
stall in which it had been kept, but the
gate-keeper had become too terrified to
understand the order or to perform his
duty, and the gate remained closed.
The nerve of my guide never faltered
for an instant, but, seeing the terror of
the others, and witnessing the fury of
the animal, he drew his long knife and
calmly awaited the next rush to make
the fatal thrust that should terminate
the existence of the bull and the scene
If excitement. Once more the bull
swooped down toward him, and he
stood ready to strike the knife into its
neck, but, as he attempted to spring
back and let the bull pass by him before
doing so, his foot slipped, and he was at
once impaled upon the horns of the
beast, and in moment his lifeless body
fell within few feet of his dead COM
rade.
The excitement of the crowd now
reached the most intense point; it
amounted to actual agony. For mo-
ment they were spell-bound by terror,
and gave utterance to piercing shrieks
and cries. Then several shots were
fred at the bull, none of which took
serious effect, but only appeared to in
crease its madness and its ire. Suddenly
the bull, now blinded with rage and
maddened by the wounds it had re-
ceived, dashed against the thorny bar
r1er OF the pltahaya, and, breaking
through it, rushed among the terrified
multitude upon the outside of the in
closure. The crowd scattered in all di-
rections, and the bull tossed or tram
pied upon all who were in it's way as it
rushed toward the open plain. There
were three others killed outright, and
several seriously wounded. Heart-sick
with the horrible scene, 1 blended with
the people that were seeking their
homes. When drawing near group
that surrounded one of those killed upon
the outside, above the wailings of the
crowd there rose upon the air the shrill
agonized cry of heart-broken woman,
and. as the group made way, l saw lying
upon the ground one of the animals
victims, while its mother was kneeling
over it. It was the frst-born of a
fond father / had before noticed, the
bull having tossed the neighbor who
had it in his arms and killed them both
at the same time. / would not for the
possession of the entire Mexican repub-
lie witness another such bull,fght.
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