Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-08
CRITICAL IN BAKU
Outbreak Causes Grave Con-
Germ.
NO TROOPS PRESENT
INABILITY TO COPE WITH RIOT
Frs SHOWN.
To- ~%os 80
70 TROOPS PRESENT
Fears Entertained Of a Serious Revo.
luton - Officers Incompetent
Armistice Not Awaiting.

The situation in the Caucasus has grown
| most serious and threatens to become the
| outbreak of what st. Petersburg Is begin
| ming to think a well-lasd plan of revo-
luton. the object Of which is the conquest
| of the country for the Mahommedans AL
| though warned week or more ago by the
oil companies that trouble was imminent,
the government did not respond and sent
no troops for the protection of the inhab
itapts against whom the rebellious would
+ first raise their hand.
Reports Of the number killed by the Tar
tar soldiery vary from LOCO to 1900 but 1t
is impossible to estimate the slain even ap-
proximately, as massacre follows massacre
throughout the district There are said to
be 10000 fugitives without work, while the
Oil industry has practically been ruined. 1t
is believed in some quarters that the up
rising Is the first step of a Mahommedan
plot to win back the country to the Mus
sulman religion.
The incompetence and corruption OF the
government officers Is said to be largely re-
sponsible for the disturbances. Brigandage
was so well protected that petty raids are
now developing into q full-hedged revou-
ton.
Arnistice Of No Avail
Special Cablegram to The Star
ST. PETERSBURG September s-The
Russian banks at Baku, in a circular ad-
dressed to the government, state that the
armistice at Baku announced yesterday will
not avail. 1t adds:
The men without work, numbering 800,
from the burned factories have Joined in
the disorders and have begun pillaging."
The circular declares that the property OF
the banks and the lives Of their employees
are In danger of destruction unless the mil
itary protection is Immediately strength
ened.
Street Fighting Continued.
By Associated Press
BAKU, Caucasia, September Street
fighting continued until late last night.
The consulates, banks and government
buildings are guarded by troops.
Balakhan was completely burned out
after the Tartars had plundered 1t of every
thing valuable. Although shot down in
masses by the artillery the Tartars were not
deferred from their work of wreckage and
looting
Fierce lighting and great slaughter oc-
CURED at the Balakhan hospital, where a
thousand Armenians and workmen gath
cred. Gen. Shirinkin sent a detachment of
artillery, with three guns, to the scene,
and the commander of the detachment sum-
moned the crowd to surrender.
The latter replied with volleys of stones
and some Shots which killed one of the
gunners. The commander of the troops
thereupon opened fire. The first discharge
Of the three guns miscarried, the shells
falling into the sea, but the second dis
charge sent the shells crashing into the
hospital where they exploded killing an
immense number of men and wrecking the
building. The maddened crowd charged
the guns and captured them after deluging
the gunners with burning oil The latter
then fled. Cossacks and infantry rein
forcements attempted to recapture the
abandoned guns, but were driven back by
the suffocating smoke.