Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-07-04
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Tney were massed on the Pase de Buca-
relli and the road connecting that prone
made with the Alameda.
We have already stated that the Mexi-
can army, 10000 strong. has 2.400 Off
GERS. Hence, in the enormous crowd as
sembled to witness the review uniforms
were in majority, for all the officers liv-
ing on half pay in Mexico, for some rea-
son or another, considered themselves
bound TO attend the review as amateurs.
At quarter to o'clock the drums
beat, the troops presented arms, deaf
ening shout was raised by the crowd. and
the President of the Republic arrived,
followed by large staff, glistening with
gold and lace, and with a cloud of feath-
ers waving in their cooked hats.
General Guerrero had Joined the Presi-
dents staff in his full dress uniform. as
Colonel Lupo and other conspirators had
also done; the rest, dispersed among the
crowd.
In the meanwhile the review went on
without any hitch. 1t is true that the
President restricted himself to riding
along the front, and then ordering the
troops to march past, for he did not
dare, owing TO the notorious ignorance of
the officers and soldiers, risk the execu-
ton of any maneuvers, for it would not
have been understood, and would have
broken the charm under which the spec
tators were fascinated. Then the Presi-
dent, still followed by his staff, proceed
ed to the cathedral. We will not say
anything about the official reception, etc.
which occupied all the morning.
The hour for the bull fight arrived
Since the review no one troubled him
self about the troops, who seemed to
have suddenly disappeared-no a soldier
was visible in the streets; but the people
did not think of them, for they were let
ting off fireworks laughing and shouting,
which was quite sufficient to amuse them.
1t was only noticed that these soldiers,
though invisible about the city, had ap-
parently passed the word to each other
to be present at the bull fight. Nearly
the whole of the palcos de sol in the cir
Gus, that is to say, the parts exposed to
the sun, were thronged with. soldiers,
grouped pell-mell with the leperos, and
offering the most pleasant contrast with
these ragged scamps. who were yelling
and whistling.
The President arrived, and the circus
was in a second invaded by the mob.
Since an early hour the jamaica had be-
gun, that is to say, the framework of
verdure raised in the center of the arena,
forming refreshment rooms had since
daybreak been filed with countless num-
bers of leperos, who ate with cries of
ferocious delight.
Suddenly, at a given signal, the gate
of the torril was opened and a bull
rushed into the arena. Then began an
extraordinarily indescribable scene, resem-
bling one of those diabolical meetings so
admirably designed by Cabot.
The leperos, surprised by the arrival
of the bull, darted, shouting, pushing
and upsetting each other, over the frame
work, which they threw down and tram
pied under foot in their terror, while
seeking to escape the pursuit of the en-
bollado, who, also excited by the turmoil,
hunted them vigorously. In a second the
arena was deserted, the refreshment
rooms swept clean, and the performers in
the Jamaica sought any shelter they could
find on the edge of the palcos or upon
the columns, from which they hung in
hideous, yelling and grimacing clusters.
The BULL after amusing himself for
some minutes in tossing about the re-
mains of the framework, stopped and
looked cunningly around, and soon no.
ticed the tree the only obstacle left to
remove in order to completely empty the
arena.
He remained motionIess for an instant,
as if hesitating ere he formed a resolu-
ton, then bowed his head, made the sand
fly with his fore feet, dashed his tail
violently, and rushing at the tree, dealt
it repeated powerful blows.
The leperos uttered a cry of despair
The tree, which was overladen, and in
cessantly Slapped at its base by the bull,
swayed, and at last fell sideways, carry
ing down in its fall the leperos clinging
to its branches. The audience clapped
their hands and broke into frenzied
braves, which changed into perfect yells
of delight when a poor fellow who was
limping away was suddenly caught up by
the bull and tossed ten feet high in the
air.
All at once, and at the moment when
the joy was attaining its paroxysm, sew
eral rounds of artillery were heard, fol-
lowed by a we'll sustained musketry fire.
As if by magic the bull was driven back
to the torril. the soldiers scattered about
the circus leaped into the ring, and be-
coming actors instead of spectators, drew
up in good order and leveled their muskets
at the occupants of the galleries and
boxes, who remained motionless with ter
ror, for they did not understand what
was going on.
A door opened and twenty bandsmen,
followed by eight officers and escorted by
dozen soldiers, entered the ring and be-
gan beating the drums. 1t was a gov
ernmental bando. So soon as silence was
restored martial law was proclaimed and
sentence of outlawry passed on General
Don Sebastian Guerrero and his adher-
ents, who had just raised the standard of
revolt and pronounced against the estab-
lished government.
Mexico was once again the prey of one
of those scenes of murder and carnage
which, since the proclamation of indepen-
dence, has too often stained her streets
and squares with blood.
The President was on horseback in the
center of the arena, sending off orders,
listening to messages or detaching re-en-
forcements wherever they were wanted.
The circus was converted into the head
quarters of the army of order, and the
spectators, although allowed to depart
after some arrests had been effected
among them, remained trembling in their
seats, preferring not to venture into the
streets, which had been converted into
real battlefelds.
Ito be continued.)
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