The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-08
TERROrIZING
 INHABITANTS State &Jf Anarchy in the Caucasus. TERRIBLE CASUALTY LIST People Are Mastered and Thrown Into Flames. situation shows no Sign of AmeiiOra- tion and Populace is Fleeing from
 Baku-The Garrison
 Inadequate.

It could hardly be worse. The terror stricken inhabitants are fleeing from the city. knowing that the garrison is utterly inadequate to protect them and although the worst scenes of fire ana massacre have not yet occurred In baku itself none dares to think how far the excesses may proceed.
 The principal fighting is not in Baku itself, but at Balakhan, where hundreds have been shot by the infantry and artillery and where one thousand were killed or wounded during desperate attack on the military camp and pro- vision depots.
 The troops sustained few casualties larger number of workmen bar ricaded themselves in the Balakhan hos pital. The soldiers began the attack with rifle fire and then stormed the hospital and completed their work with the bayonet
 The entire oil and commercial quart CTS of Balakhan, Sabunto and &Nomani have been wiped out by fire and the in- habitants remaining behind were mas sacred and thrown Into the flames Bybiebat continues to burn.
 The consulates, banks and adminis- tration buildings in Baku are guarded | by troops. All of the English residents and almost all other inhabitants of the | better class have boarded ships and l gone to sea to escape from danger. All available steamers have been employed | for this purpose Martial law has been l proclaimed in the city. Nobody Is allowed on the streets after o'clock at night and inhabitants of houses are held strictly responsible for shots fired from | them. Artillery was employed against | one house from which shots were fr- ed. The walls were preached. the house was stormed and all the people inside were killed. There is general panic fin the city. A whole army of hungry workmen driven in from the burned suburbs has hocked Into the city. There Is the greatest destitution and measures for | transporting the ~orkfneSi from the city ! are iu1perattveiy necessary. ReinfsEce- ments of troops are arriving daily and l it is hoped the authoities soon will have the situation better in hand. i Six Days of Terror.
 | Following is brief review iu sequence of the events of the last six days as witnessed at Baku:
 On the afternoon of Saturday last reports began running from mouth to mouth that the Tartars and Armenians were massacreing each other. Imme- diately there was great alarm and a panic prevailed. Stores were closed and windows and doors were barri- caded. Twenty minutes later sounds of rifle firing were heard from the various quarters of the city and everybody wished to flee. but no one could tell whether safety lay within or without the city.
 Two hours later patrols of Cossacks and other soldiers armed with rifles began to arrive from the barracks and these troops immediately engaged the rioters. ---.- The firing between the warning fac- tions continued all Saturday night. On Sunday the situation showed no im- movement and firing was in progress all during the day. the streets being deserted except for the combatants. No one dared to leave his house during the day. A carriage surrounded by Cos sacks conveyed the city authorities to the house of the governor general. At o'clock on Sunday evening the first reflection on the sky of fire in the | "b1ack town" quarter was noticed and l n was learned that the Nobel oil reser- voirs were burning. Sunday night was more fearful than the preceding one. | Fires broke out In several quarters and the firing of the troops was uninter- rupted. Fires also broke out in the suburbs of Balakhan and sabunto. Photographic communication between Baku and these points was destroyed and 1t was impossible to acertain what was burning on Monday morning.
 Many of the inhabitants decided to brave the dangers in an effort to leave the city. They went in cabs surround ed by Cossaeks to the railroad station and the flight from the city soon be- came general.
 Provisions Scarce.
 By this time provisions had become scarce and prices were soaring. On | Monday night the burning, shooting killing and plundering continued and a refinery which was in flames beyond | HIh{ahaf If mn iy, that aJ-oa ton. A big woodward in Baku also caught fire and strong wind famed the flames. which soon spread to Nixi- tin circus and adjacent houses. The fire continued all of Tuesday, blazing out in several new places embracing the railroad station and a number of Armenian houses in different quarters of the city.
 During Wednesday fugitives from Balakhan began to arrive here and told of the indescribable horrors they had witnessed All the oil works there they said, were in hands of Tartars, who were plllaging the houses of Rus sian and Armenian workmen, carrying away everything of value and burning the buildings. Ten thousand workmen. they said, would be left in poverty and they believe that Balakhan will be to- tally destroyed.
 At o'clock on Wednesday after noon the situation was somewhat quieter, Tartars and Armenians were running through the streets crying Peace" and a little later a procession made up of both races with clergymen at its head. went through the town, but these efforts toward a cessation of the fighting were not effective. for the 1r- ing went on all Wednesday night. The soldiers. however. continued their ef- forts to repress the disorders and bv Thursday morning matters were more orderly everywhere.
 The streets today are deserted and the stores. banks ana other nubIic places are closed. hardly anybody ven- turing out. A pail of heavy black smoke hangs over Baku and its sub urbs.
 The losses in these six days have not yet been accurately established 1t was reported this morning that inc Tartars, notwithstanding their spar- ticipation in the peace" proeession are