Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1905-09-14
THE BAEU UPRISING.
The Armenian and Tartar Warning
4 Factions Beyond, Control
DISORDERS DUE TO RACE RIVALRY
The Destruction ~ OIL AND Nnphtba
VIII Cause Great Lots and
Inconvenience Aside ls
from les value.

glOOmleBt cDhfttcUtT. lHe rATmSnluIl
and Tartar warning factions now APP
pear TO be entirely beyond control,
The streets of Baku seem to be I'M
safe for the inhabitants and the force
of troops to be inadequate to restrain
the aDarchical tendencies Of the com
batants In the surrounding region.
According TO reliable reports the
troops have been forced TO withdraw
from the suburb Of Balakhan, where
on Tuesday the rioters set fire to the
oil works, and that place is now in
the hands Of the TaTtars. who have
completed the work Of destruction
and who II is said massacred the in
habitants who did not accompany the
troops in their retirement Tele-
phonic and railroad communication
between Baku and the suburban Oil
centers is cut and late Wednesday
night 1t was reported that the wires
into Baku were down.
The viceroy Of the Caucasus has
dispatched reinforcements OF troops
from Ttfis, but owing to the condi-
lions throughout the whole Of the
southern part Of the Caucasus, with
these reinforcements the troops Will
be inadequate to cope with the situa-
ton. In the suburban region the
fight Is desperate and the soldiers are
using artillery.
Representatives Of the oil industry
here are utterly Respondent and they
declare that on the basis Of the tele-
grams so far received more than half
Of the industry In the Baku region
has been wiped out and that the fire
Is making rapid inroads into the re-
mainder Of the oil territory.
The Baku representative Of prom
lnent company has telegraphed to his
St. Petersburg headquarters as fol-
lows: 1T is no longer a question OF
saving our property, but one OF get
ting out alive"
A press dispatch from Baku, ap-
proved by the censor, says: THE
rival factions are concentrating In
their quarters here. The situation is
exceedingly tense. Murders are fire.
Quent. Cannonadlng is heard from
time to time In the Moslem
quarter the patrols have been fred
upon. Balakhan Is on FIRE and the
Armenians are surrounded by armed
villagers, apparently Tartars, and the
cannonading there Is unceasing,"
The fire continues in "the black
town quarter" and in Bibiebat. En-
ergetic measures and heavy reinforce
ments of troops are Immediately nee
essary.
other advices state that a hot fight
Is going on between Armenians and
Tartars at Bibiebat and that great
fires are still raging at Sabunto and
Nomani, fed by immense tanks OF
naphtha, of which there are 1000 in
that region, and that the confagFa-
ton at Baku, where up to Tuesday
evening the tanks Of the society OF
poku yuara intact IL steadily increas-
H. 1,rdo- theee conditions with
sah.,rg go,ng on in The streets and
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their causes are ueeprooVeu IA 'ne
long continued general disorder whlen
has reigned In the region owing Sole
ly to rivalry among the races.
A prominent OIL man eAplalneu "