Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1905-09-11
REAPING WHIRLWIND
BAKU DISTRICT TROUBLES NOW
BEYOND CONTROL.
Streets of City Unsafe for 1nhab.
iiants and Military Seems Pow.
erIeSS to Cope With the Sifua-
tiOn-Great Fires In the OIL Dis.
trICt.

SU. f0VoTbUuIBS Oopu. S'A AANooO ou-
vices from Baku, Caucasia, say that
the "Black town" district of that city
is still burning and also the works at
Blakh Biblebat, Nomani and Sab.
unto. The losses amount to millions
of roubles. Baku is overhung with
dense clouds of smoke and the flames
of burning buildings illuminated the
city all night long.
St. Petersburg, Sept. THE news
from Baku received up to the time of
filing this dispatch is of the gloomiest
character. The Armenian and Tartar
warning factions now appear to be en-.
tirely beyond control. The streets of
Baku seem to be unsafe for the inhab-
itants and the force Of troops to be in
adequate to restrain the anarchical
tendencies Of the combattants in the
surrounding region.
According to reliable reports the
troops have been forced to withdraw
from the suburb of Balak han, where
Tuesday the rioters set fire to the oil
works, and that place is now in the
hands Of the Tartars, who have COM
pleted the work Of destruction, and
who, it is said, massacred the inhab.
itants who did not accompany the
troops in their retirement. Telephone
and railroad communication between
Baku and the suburban. oil centers is
cut, and late last night it was reported
that the wires into Baku were cut.
Soldiers Use Artillery.
Th3 viceroy of the Caucasus has
despatched reinforcements of troops
from Tiflis, but owing to the condi-
tions throughout the southern part of
the Caucasus with these reinforce
ments the troops will be inadequate to
cope with the situation. In the sub.
urban region the fighting 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 Roadway into the re-.
mainder of the oil territory.
Question of Lite and Death.
The Baku representative of prom
inent company has telegraphed to his
St. Petersburg headquarters:
cit is no longer question of saw
ing our property, but one of getting
out alive"
A press dispatch from Baku, approx.
ed by the censor, says:
"The rival factions are concentrat-
ing in their quarters here. The stu
alton is exceedingly tense. Murders
are frequent. Cannonading is heard
from time to time. The patrols have
been fired upon, and the Armeniana
are surrounded by armed villagers, ap.
earently Tsrtars, and the cannonading
there is increasing. Energetic meas
ures and heavy reinforcement Of troops
are Immediately necessary"
/ Other advices state that hot fight
is going on between Armenians and
Tartars at Bibleat and that great fires
are still raging at Sabunto and Nom.
ami, fed by the immense tanks of nap
tina, Of which there are 1000 in that
region, and that the conflagration at
Baku, where up to last evening the
tanks Of the society of Baku were in
tact, is steadily increasing. Under
these conditions, fighting going on in
the streets and the hurricane blowing.
the advices say it will be almost i'm.
possible to extinguish the fires.
Oilmen who assem- bled at St. Peters
burg yesterday formulated measures
which they deemed imperative and
which they presented to Financial
Minister Kokovsoff. These measures,
which probably will be laid before the
emperor, after detailing the causes
leading up to the present situation, ask
that the oil works be surrounded by
troops, and that the warning elements,
namely, the Armenians and tho Tar.
Jars, be entirely excluded from the oil
region. The oil men declare that they
do not hold the workmen responsible
and that the regretable events were
not caused by the workingmen's move
ment, which is economic and political
but that their causes are in the long
continued general disorder which hal
reigped in the region owing solely tt
rivalry among the races.
Bacon to Succeed LOOMS.
OYSTER BAY, Sept. 6.-Preeiden