People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1893 — DEATH AT A BULL FIGHT. [ARTICLE]

DEATH AT A BULL FIGHT.

Two Person* Killed and Several Dangerously Hurt in the Province of Madrid. Madrid, June 12. —Particulars have been received here of a bull fight at Getafe, in the province of Madrid, in which the proceedings were of the most extraordinary kind and led to the death of two persons, while six were dangerously injured and several others more or less hurt. A large crowd was in attendance and twenty-eight bulls were brought out. The ring was invaded by numbers of the crowd, eager to take part in the sport. One bull thrust his horns through a man’s cloak, and being thus blindfolded, became furious. A youth from Madrid, attempting .to recover the cloak, was caught on the bull’s horns, tossed -and then gored to death amid the frenzied plaudits of the spectators. Shortly afterward another youth, who engaged the next bull, was pinned to the barrier by the animal’s horns and killed on the spot The fight continued, as bull after bull was sent into the ring, amid the enthusiasm of the onlookers, the authorities continuing to preside at the proceedings until the last animal had appeared. Several persons were dangerously hurt and had to be carried out of the ring.