The Plymouth Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1878-1901, 1901-07-11
BULLS FOUGHT IN OMAHA
Many Women Painted and Officers of the
Humane Society Occupied Front Seats.

HrSt OF two dozen bull
fights arranged by the
South Omaha Festival com
mittee was witnessed yester-
day by 10000 persons. In every
detail the spectacle was about
what the average person expect
ed who had read details of the
Spanish fights, with the excep-
ton that no horses were gored
and the ferocious bulls, which
the agile toreadors provoked to
a frenzy, were not killed.
The hairbreadth escapes, the
snort of pain, and wild dash on
the part of the bulls to destroy
their tormentors, were in evil
dence, and several times the ma
tadOr dashed in and laid his sword
over the neck of the frantic ami
NAL, just to show how he would
dispatch the wild, plunging brute
were it not for the presence of
the sedate- looking humane So
ciety officials, who occupied a
prominent position in boxes. The
understanding of the public was
that the officials would attend the
first fight, and if it was not too
revolving or too cruel, the exhi-
billions could continue through
the week. The tacit understand
ing is that from now on the bulls
will be killed outright in the ring
and dragged from the slaughter
pen by horses attached to thier
tails in true Spanish style.
Today the toreadors. picadors.
and matadors contented them
selves with tormenting the bulls,
piercing their hides with long
darts and racing around the ring.
lodging the lunges of the ami
mails.
There were situations that
were sufficiently exciting to cause
the crowd Cfspectators to scream
in fright and many women to
faint This was true when Sc
nor Minquil Sorosis Sierol, chief
of the toreadors, slipped and fell
beneath the feet of one of the
mad bulls. The animal ran over
the PROSTATE man and turned to
pierce him with his lc :, keen
horns. The toreadors an for
ward Haunting their rec blankets
in the face of the enraged beast.
and succeeded in distracting the
animals attention until the injur-
ed man could be dragged to a
place of safety. The Spanish
managers of the concern say the
man was overcome by the ex-
treme heat and tainted.
With this and other narrow es-
capes the sport was sufficiently
animated to satisfy even the
most ferocious exponent of the
art of Spanish bull fighting. The
great crowd gathered early in
the afternoon and fought for
seats. The big amphitheater
constructed by the committee has
a seating capacity of 5000. The
building is of circular form, and
a ring ninety feet in diameter is
in the center, with raised seats
around the sides. At four o'clock
four gaily dressed toreadors and
two matadors entered the ring.
The picadors-the ones who
handle the bulls from horseback
were excluded from the exhi-
bition for fear some of the horses
might be disemboweled and the
sport stopped. The matadors
carried huge swords, but it is
said that the weapons were dunn
mics covered with tin foil. and
first inspected by the Humane
society officials. to be certain the
bull could not be actually killed.
Still, this is a mooted question.
as the swords were not required
20 shed blood, and the manage
ment insists they were of real
steel.
The toreadors were greeted
with bowls and whoops by the
excited crowd, and they bowed
and kissed their hands like cir
ems clowns. There WIS num-
Der of women present, and to
these especially the bull fighters
kissed their hands, and were
greeted with waving handker-
chiefs.