St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-25
FEAST OF BLOOD.
LA FIESTA DE CRIPPLE CREEK
Is ALL THAT WAS PROM
ISED.
BULL FIGHT A LA MEXICO.
PICADORES, BANDERILLOS, RED
CLOAKS, SPEARS AND
SWORDS.
ONE BULL KILLED OUTRIGHT,
Another Called in, but the Second
Fight StOpped-Militia to
Be Summoned.

CRIPPLE CREEK, Col, Aug. "a
The first day of La Fiesta de Grip
pie Creek has passed, a success in
every detail. The programme was
carried out and the bull fight was
all that had been advertised, fight
to the finish, in regular Mexican style
Capt. Czeh and the charming Chivel-
la, famed in Old Mexico bull fights,
were the principals. Arizona Char
ley was there, as were also three
capadores, who fight with the red
cloak, and banderilleros, who threw
the sharp spears into the neck, and
the picadores, who with spears on
horseback fight. The bull was there,
and met his death in the heroic fash
ion that has characterized the bull
fights Of Spain for centuries past.
1t was the first bull that has died
in America at the hands of trained
gladiators. The bull pen is 200 feet
in diameter, circular in form, and
strongly barricaded, and surmount-
ing the whole is an immense amphi-
theater, seating from 5000 to 10000
people. At the side entrance a bull
was admitted, and plunged madIy
into the ring. He was met by the
picadores on horses and goaded to
desperation with their spears. Then
capadore Haunted a red flag in the
face Of the bull, and he would plunge
ait the man, who would only escape
being gored by stepping gracefully
aside or by making a swift run for
one OF the escapes. Once or twice
is seemed that the men would GER
tainly meet death. NearrowIy did
/ they escape the maddened animal.
The horsemen, it seemed. were in
just as imminent peril; but it was
when the banderilleros struck their
festooned arrows into the animals
neck that the bull became thorough
ly enraged.
SWORD VERSUS BULL.
Then Chehe, whose proper name is
Jose Morervo. armed with a. sword.
came forward to do battle singIe-hand-
ed with the bovine. The Spaniard
faced the bul and dared him to battle.
1 The bull would plunge into the scar
let mantle, but Chehe was a-way. FL
. nally, by a blow aimed for the heart.
the bull was badly, but not fatally
wounded in the shoulder. The battle
between the man and beast was ended
with only a well-timed blow at the
lo1ns Of the neck and between the ears
OF the bull, and the spinal cord was
reached and he fell and with a groan
expired. A second bull was introduced
Immediately, and the fight was fairly
under way when Sheriff Bowers and his
deputies arrived and placed Joseph
Wolf, the chief promoter of the fight.
and all the participants in the fight
under arrest, on the charge of cruelty
TO animals, and the fight was stopped.
The parties arrested promptly paid the
fne imposed and the same difficulty
VIII be encountered in the course of
the morrow's sport, but it is the GEN
eral impression that the officers have
been bluffed out and that the fight
will go on.
AdJt. Gen. Moses has Just arrived
and says the power of the militia is
10 be summoned to stop tomorrow's
Dull fight; but it is not thought the
state authorities will be on hand in
time to Interfere with the programme
ana 1t will be the biggest day ever
known to the sporting world in the
United States.