Murcia Fair
This fair of the 135th anniversary of the Muria bullring will leave for history the sad news of the death of one of the butchers of the company that manages the bullfighting meats and carry out their work during the days of the fair in the slaughterhouse of the centennial bullring .
The misfortune of a fatal goring on Monday night, in the womb, from which Santiago López Carcelén was unable to recover at the Reina Sofía hospital, where he was transferred, mourns a fair that had begun with the happiness of seeing the triumph of the bullfighters Santiago should not have died. However, his tragedy shows that a bull, until the last moment, can mortally wound. The bull ‘Limpiador’, who jumped into the ring in third place, in the first bullfight of the fair held on Monday, was returned to the pens after limping from the hindquarters. The horned Daniel Ruiz, once he took out the green handkerchief, the presidency returned the way he had left very quickly, without the need for the meek to make an appearance. Until the end of the bullfight, ‘Cleaner’ remained isolated in one of the corrals in the square.
Surprised by ‘Cleaner’
Once the bullfight is over, night has fallen, the corraleros continue their work, handling the bulls for the next day’s bullfight, shipping the remaining bulls from the bullfight that has already finished and, as in the case of Monday, when there is a returned bull , as marked by the Regulation, which prevents that bull from going out to a square again, thundering the res. The bull was stabbed from above, lying prone and apparently thunderstruck. It was at that moment – minutes before ten o’clock at night – when Santiago, one of the butchers, entered the corral to finish butchering the bull and prepare his transfer to the slaughterhouse.
He was surprised when ‘Cleaner’ unexpectedly got up and charged at him. Inside the corral, with no possibility of escape, the bull gave him an accurate goring in the belly. As they could, they took him out to the horse yard. There was the ambulance that during the fair has the mission of transferring any wounded, if there is one in the ring. In the horse yard there was a great stir, with races and shouts, when verifying the seriousness of the mishap, and that the ambulance left quickly to transfer the gored to the Reina Sofia Hospital. The closest one. There, the doctors did everything possible, they even revived Santiago from a first cardiorespiratory arrest. He couldn’t take it after the second. At the time of the change of day, the news that arrived was already that of death.
From ‘El Castizo’ to ‘Angelín’
In these 135 years there had been five deaths as a result of bull horn injuries: the first was, seven years after the bullring was inaugurated, in 1894, a bullfighter nicknamed ‘El Castizo’. He was followed by the matador Jose Claro ‘Pepete’, in 1910; the picador Salvador Angosto ‘Loquillo’, in 1913, the bullfighter Juan Ruiz ‘Lagartija II’, in 1922; the last tragedy being that of the corralero ‘Angelín’, in 1997.
‘El Castizo’, a native of Cazalla de la Sierra (Seville), was 27 years old, and was caught in the belly by a steer owned by the Marquis of Mudela. The death of the Sevillian ‘Pepete’, the only bullfighter who fell in the Murcian ring, dismayed the people. The Parladé bull was “well horned and very Roman”. He had a deadly fuck, which he barely knows about. He fell into the arms of his swordsman, never to get up again. The burning chapel was installed in the infirmary.
Three years later, the victim was a varilarguero. On September 8, 1913, Salvador Angosto ‘Loquillo’, born in Cartagena, fell dead in the plaza. He was knocked off his horse, leaving himself exposed in front of the bull, which accurately inserted the python into his chest, causing instant death.
The afternoon that Dr. Sánchez-Parra made his debut as a surgeon at La Condomina could not have been more eventful. The bull ‘Gorete’ completely sectioned the femoral and saphenous vein of the Segovian ‘Lagartija II’. The wound was in the right inguinal region, twelve centimeters.
The last time death appeared in La Condomina it was not in the ring, but in the corrals of the square. On the morning of Saturday, September 20, 1997, ‘Angelín’ left one of the burladeros to separate the herd that had to be penned. ‘Malospelos’, a steer from the Las Ramblas ranch, ran towards ‘Angelín’ and gored him in the neck. Ángel Sánchez Mompeán was 67 years old on the day of his death. He left behind a wife and six children. He worked for more than 40 years as a corralero.
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