A GREAT DISASTER. I MANY LIVES LOST AT A BULL FIGHT. UNKNOWN

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 260, 2 May 1888, Page 3

A GREAT DISASTER. I

MANY LIVES LOST AT A BULL FIGHT. UNKNOWN

\ -1-u-i.il Hum the (it\ 'it .Mc\ko -a\ - -The ' i\\ o Republic- piibii-lud t'.i. Ujliowu)^ ,i'i\iu- iMjin ( i_'a\;i bi<nda> ail i i niioi! about 4.4."i o clock the b.r.ldin^ or j ( (.1 \ i \>a- ' loaded wit li -pect.itoi - Di tin n<it lun.'l ■*! vi I \( m nnfui\ of 1 m 11li_ilit^i- fioni L^on u.i- -''1 pla\mu with! i.lx. m-t bull, uhni lue -uddenly biokc out mi tiit l.t-hioiidlilf -itif (ii Iho pJ.'i/.i. A | |)<IIIIC - lJ i/C(l 11} >'Jll ill*,' \ cl-t a — L'llllj!,l'ie. .llld.l j ill^lltJlll (Mt<l-tlO})IiO \\«l- till 11-illt 'Flic j I'lT/.i vn- 'on~t)ucte! o! wooden ui.i-t'-. j !(,( fly. tf .Uld it U.'l- dIU JO tlll^ i.lCt II). ll t!)- Dl.ijoili \ "-« l[tcd Ultlld'lt It»|lll\ I)Ulll<i ! ,dili to ioM'L an opfiniiu to pen))]! an exit, , a! dillei.nt pojni-. hut niaii^ women and ( lnldicn )uui|icd h oin llk to)> a di^tanci of 200 tj 300 feet, and o.ci 100 jwi -on>) \. oic -cuou-lv ANOi-ndtd. l.iuhtcf-n l!\c- wens i 10-t Tlil -ulc- of Ili'j p!a,a beni2 liu' d | ur.ii matting a- <\)\ .i- tindci, and then J brin^u -h^liL bloumu, lliu amjihi- ! ilicatic \\a- m a UUur in a tf.w -ccondXnn- dc.'id bodit--. m lOme c.im 1 - -o iliantd a-> to be nun "o^iu-able, \\uo| taken tioni the nun-, and nine pei-un^ \s eie <~n budl\ bninud iluit tjie\ died in a few houi-. M\L\-eijjln- pu^m- \(iy badl\ Inline!, and at loa->t ton of them will die tin week. !"ifl;, por-on*- in esc-ap-hi ' >\cic knocked dov, n and tiampled upon \tCt\u panic-'-tnken tJnon^, and ate vei> -("nou-l\ but not Tatnll} in|iued. The hull-, maddened bv Uk loaiinn- of the !l;une-, broke 100-e trom their htnlls and iu>hed wildly thiou'iii the sinking ma-s of humanity, lo—inji: alofo and knoekin^ ovei all who <4ood in Uien way. Amonjr the i ijL'hleen dead two women who were In^Loorul lo death b,y the bulls and their bodio aftei u aidh bui n< d. The reeno in the noitihbourliood oi the bull mitf 1 weie -iekeniny beyond deteiiption \\ onie'i and child] en di\("-ted of tlioii ,elotlnn^ <md eia/cd with f-u/lenn^ from theii bum'- lan annles-ly tluouyh the street- and could be oxertaken oi collected by then hicncK ftevi ial persons lost their reason from tinHe\eie mental shock to which they weie subjected. The fiie wiih incendiaiy. Jn the Celaya \\(ie a numbei of pn-r oncr.s, auny dc-eiteis etc., a\ ho had obtained pennisbion fiom the authoiitieh

to at< «mul tlm hull-tt<;hl. They were accompanied hv a sluing <_;uaid ot soldiei.s to pi event their cicipo, hut one ot the deseitets Mirtepht iuusl\ shuck a match and lighted one ot die <li \ plates, lv an in •4.1 nt the " sol '" side ot t lie 1 in", w as ahla/e. hi the contusion and e\(itiiiienl ihe t n i-otiiM -. -iieeeedcd in niakinu 'jood 1 1 it it e>i.«[ie takinu eltances id c'llecl tli-'if cud-. The ik^l si) C 'uM\ ot C e!a\a was m al(<'iid i atue. i( u,is MasU'i Suuda\. die tchnn or ! the -tMsou ot i;a\ » l \ att(M Lent Tln'ie\\.i^ an liiuisiial imiuh«.i o\ l.uhes and little t hiMien ))ii s ( m, (11l 1 diesi' \\en> the snilevn \o tn.tn lust Ins tile. The lv Ipless little Din s Mid thin mot Ik is, who wonkl not> 1 dfiM ( d\t n (i l-~| >i 1 1 1 •_• . \\ ri( die \id tins o| iln ij>|ul!in<_; t,n i-t.opln ( tli\.i i- in nioiii ii inn to da \ (l,n'\in side a>e he.nd the sounds ot w athn^ (oi loved ones di ad, nxui^oi siiliiiin^ 't \~t'"_ -nidi t ti.m ed\ 111 ,i h i- vi ciiiinl in lln thi cc i en! mi i s O* 1 lit 1 l!l\ s Ills ol \ .