New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-07
MURDER AND ARSON GO ON
ENORMOUS LOSS At BAKU.
Confagration Spreads and Troops
Unable to Restore Order.

ST Petersburg, Sept. Z, $50 a. rn--The news
.-o-, Fak,l received up to the time OF filing Of
s. This dispatch is of the gloomiest character. The
Armenian and Tartar warning factions now ap-
near 20 be entirely beyond control. The streets
of Ralu seem TO he unsafe for the inhabitants
and the force of troops to be inadequate TO re-
strain the anarchist tendencies of the combat
ants in the surrounding region.
According TO trustworthy reports the troops
have been forced TO withdraw from the suburb
u. Belakhan. where, on Tuesday, the rioters set
FIRE 10 the oil works and that place is now in
the hands OF the Tartars. who have completed
the work OF destruction, and. 1t is said, massa-
cred the inha btants who did not retire with the
troops Telephone and railroad communication
between Baku and the suburban oil centres is
c,,t and late last night it reported that the
wires into Baku were down
The viceroy Of the Caucasus has dispatched
reinforcements of troops from Tihis, but owing
70 conditions through the whole of the south
western part of the province 1t is thought that
even with these reinforcements the troops will
he
the country regions the fighting is desperate. and
the soldiers using artillery.
Representatves Of the oil industry here are in
despair and say that, according TO the kilograms
M 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-
rnainder of the oil territory.
r-.a T2aL,, represeptarive of prominent Oil
cornpany has telegraphe his St Petersburg
headouarters: 1T is no longer a question Of
saving our property. but Of getting out alive"
A press dispatch from Baku, approved by
the censor. says:
The rival factions concentrating in their
owl quarters here. The situation is exceedingly
tense. Murders frequent Cannonading is
heard from time TO time In the Moslem quar- r.
ter and patrols have been fired on Dalakhan Is
on fire and the Armenians are surrounded by
armed VILLAGERS apparently TaTtars- Ihe can
nonading there is unceasing. The fire continues
In the BLACK Town quarter and in Bfbiebat
Energetic measures and heavy reinforcements
of troops are Immediately necessary.
Other advices say that a hot fight IS going
on between Arn1enians and Tartars at Bibiebat
and that great fires are still raging at Sabunto
and Nomani, fed by immense tanks of naphtha4
Of which there are 1600 in that region. The
confagration at Baku. where up to last evening
the tanks of the Society Of Baku were intact,
is steadily spreading Under these conditions.
with fighting going in the streets and with a
hurricane blowing. the advices say. 1t is almost
impossible TO extinguish the fires.
OIL men who assembled at St. Petersburg yes
terday formulated measures which they deemed
imperative and which they presented TO the FL
nance Minister NJ. Kokovsof These measures
which probably will be laid before the Emperor.
after detailing the causes leading to the present
situation, ask that the oil works be surrounded
by troops and that the inflamn1atory elements.
namely the Arrnenians and Tartars be entirely
excluded from the oil region. The oil men say
that they do not hold the workmen responsible,
and that the trouble not caused by the
workingnen's movement which is economic and
political. but that the causes are deep rooted in
the long continued general disorder which has
regned In the region. owing solely to rivalry be-
tween the races.
A prominent oil man said that the loss would
be more farreachfng than the mere financial
value Of the oil and naphtha consumed or Of
that Of the tanks. buildings and machinery de-
stroyed. because the supply Of oil for purposes
OF fuel could not be replaced inside Of year.
and that the transportation industry of Russia,
which makes a heavy Of oil for fuel, would
suffer deeply. He said It the custom to
accumulate stocks OF naphtha In winter for
consumption in summer, and that there now was
remedy except TO import oil at high prices
or TO have recourse TO the costly adoption OF
plants and locomotives which would consume
other fuel
It is expected that the Ministry Of Finance
Will take immediate steps TO remove or TO re-
duce the tariff on oil as suggested by the recent
conference Of experts
Private advices from Kishinef say that street
fighting continues there. Roughs are sacking
the Jewish shops killing wounding many Of
the inmates It is said that over a score OF
soldiers have been killed The Jewish self
defence committee is active in organizing resist
ence TO the troops.
T1fis, Sept "a dispatch from Elizabethpol
asys that all of the inhabitants Of the Armenian
village Of Minkend in the district Of Zangesursk.
have been rnassacred by Tartars. Other VII
lagos Of the district are surrounded by Tartars,
and the Governor is appealing for reinforce
ments.
Byelostok Sept. 6.-A bomb was thrown to-
day at the Commissioner Of Police. He was
wounded.