Omaha daily bee., 1905-09-13
TlRTARS BEGIN aOLI War
Awful Story Of Murder and Rapins Comes
from Russia
IsLAMIsM OR DEATH is THE WAR CRY
Mutnated children Are Thrown to
the DOGS and Armenians
killed without Regard
to Age or Sex.


ST. PETERSBURG, Sept IA holy
war has been proclaimed In the Caucasian
districts Of zangezur and Jebran where
Tartars are massacring the Armenians
without distinction Of sex OF age. The
coultry is swarming with bands OF Tar
tars under the leadership Of their chiefs
Many thousands Of Tartar horsemen have
crossed. the Perso-Russian frontier and
Joined the insurgents in destroying Armen-
ian villages.
At the village Of Minkend 800 Armenians
were slaughtered Dispatches say that
mutilated children were thrown to the dogs
and that the few survivors we're forced to
embrace Islamism in order to save their
lives.
Naphtha firms are cut 4 from the de-
livery Of oil fuel to the shipping COM
panies. which are now confronted with the
necessity Of suspending their services ami
discharging their employees. which WOULD
result in leaving thousands with no. means
subsistence.
been Obliged to close owing to the scarcity
OF fuel and this will paralze the fishing
industry.
The latest advices from Baku say that
firing continues in the outskirts OF the
BLACK town" quarter and that the rioters
are committing acts Of incendiarism and
plunder at Palakhan. Many factories in
the Volga provinces have already been
closed owing to lack of fuel The work.
men there are very much excited and dis
orders are anticipated.
The managers OF private banks at st.
Petersburg have been asked to attend at
the ministry Of finance to discuss measures
to be taken concerning the riots at Baku.
BATOUM, Caucasia, Sept 12.-There is
growing agitation among the local Mus
sulmans against the Christians. The au-
thorties have seized documents melting an
outbreak
COssacks XIII Agitators.
TIFLIS. Caucasia, Sept. 1e.-Many social
democrats were killed or wounded today
in conflict with Cossacks at the town
hall and many were trampied to death in
a subsequent panic Two thousand social
democrats had forced an entrance into the
town hall, which was closed owing to the
celebration OF a religious holiday the be-
heading of John, the Baptist. Revolutionary
speeches were made and the chief of po-
lice ordered the meeting to dispense Part
of those present obeyed, but the remainder
refused and some revolvers were fred A
large force OF Cossacks drawn up outside
the building then fired volley into the
crowd time and time again, killing thirty
and wounding upward of seventy. In the
ensuing panic many persons fell and were
trampled to death by their comrades and
the pursuing Cossacks.
According TO the official account the
crowd roughly handled the commissary OF
police, whereupon the third company Of
the Potava regiment was summoned. The
commander of the company ordered the
demonstrators to disperse,4 promising not
to arrest them II they obeyed.i Shots were
then fired on the Cossacks, not only from
the town hall, but from the court yard
and the street A number Of rioters as
sembled in a neighboring house, broke
through a wall leading 70 the han and
opened fire with revolvers on the cossacks
and police, wounding a Cossack and a
policeman. The Cossaeks thereupon fired
on the rioters. Of1cial figures give the
casualties as twenty-three killed and nifty
wounded. ~ as. sT