KILLED IN A BULL FIGHT.
Many singular deaths have been placed on record, but not one perhaps more ' odd ' than that which is related below. In a city of Mexico quite recently, Saleri, a member of the Diego Prietos Bullfighting Troupe, was killed in Puebla. Saleri was quite noted for the grace and ease with which hu gave what is called the ' salta,' that is, a leap over the back of the bull with the assistance of a pole. On Sunday, Saleri performed this feat successfully with three bulls, but the fourth time the pole slipped when he was in the air above the bull, and he fell on the horns of the infuriated animal, which pierced his body. So firmly were the horns of the bull fixed in Saleri's body that some minutes elapsed before the other members of tho troupe could render any assistance and take their companion off them, which they finally did, however, at considerable risk to themselves. Saleri was taken from the arena and several surgeons summoned, when it was found that one of the horns had pierced the bowels and the other the chest of the unfortunate bull-fighter, and that these wounds were necessarily fatal. Saleri lived only half an hour.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2471, 12 May 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)
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207KILLED IN A BULL FIGHT. Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2471, 12 May 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)
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