The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1905-09-13
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vices from Baku. Caucasia, ny that
the ''Black town. DISCREET Of that city
10 still burning and also the works at
Blakhan, Blhlsbat, Nomani and eab-
unto. The lceese amount 70 millions
Of Eoubles. Baku 10 overhung with
dense clouds Of smoke and the flames
Of burning buildings illuminated The
city all night long.
st. PstsEsburg, Sept THE nsws
from Baku received mp 10 tho time Of
hliDg this dispatch 10 Of the gloomiest
character. The Armenian and Tartar
warning factions now appear 70 b en-.
tirely beyond control. Tho strssts Of
Baku seem 10 b unsafe for the inhab.
itants and the force Of troops 10 be In.
adequate 10 restrain the anarohical
tendencies Of the oombattants In the
surrounding region.
According 70 reliable repcrts the
troops have BEEN forced 10 withdraw
from the suburb Of Balakh han, whore
Tueaday the rioters ~ fire 10 the oil
works, and that place 10 now In the
hands Of the TartaSs, who have COM
pleted the work Of destruction, and
who. IL II said, massacrsd tho inhab.
itants who did mot accompany the
troops In their retirement. Telephonic
and railroad communication between
Baku and the suburban oil centen 10
ont, and late last night IL was reported
that the wires into Baku were ont.
Soldiers Use Artillery.
Ths vioeroy of the Ciucasus has
despatched achievements Of troops
from Tifiis, but owing to tho condi.
lions 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 10 desperate
and the soldiers arc using artillery.
Representative Of the oil industry
here are utterly Respondent, and they
declare that ON the basis Of tho tele-
grams 20 far received more than half
Of the industry in the Baku region has
been wiped out and that the flre 10
making rapid hesdway into the re-.
mainder Of tho oil territory.
Question Of Life end Desth.
The Baku representative of q prom.
inent company has telegraphed to his
st. Petersburg headquarters:
ut 10 no longer question of saw
ing our property, but one Of getting
ont alive"
A press dispatch from Baku. approv.
cd BY the censor, says:
"The rival factions are concentrat-
ing In their quarters here. The stu.
alton 10 exceedingly tense. Murders
are frequent. Cannonading 10 heard
from time to time. The patrols have
been fred upon, and the Armenians
are surrounded BY armed villagers, ap.
parently Tartars, and the cannonsding
there 10 increasing. Energetic meas
ures and heavy reinforcement Of troops
are Immediately necessary"
Other advices state that Q hot fight
10 going on between Armenians and
Tartars at Bibleat and that great fires
are still raging Ut 6abunto and Nom
ami. fed BY the immense tanks Of nap
ths, Of which there arc 1000 in that
region, and that the confsgration at
Baku, where up to last evening the
tanks Of tho society of Baku were in.
tsct,. 10 steadily increasing. Under
these conditions. fighting going on in
the streets and the hurricane blowing.
the advioes say IL will b almost i'm.
possible to extinguish the fires.
Oilmen who assembled at 81. Peters
burg yesterday formulated measures
which they deemed imperative and
which they presented TO Financial
Minister KokovsoR. These measures,
which probably will DO laid before the
emperor, after detailing tho causes
leading up 10 the present situation, ask
that the oil works b surrounded by
troops, and that the warning elements,
namely, the Armenians and tho Tar.
ears, b entirely excluded from the oil
region. The oil men declare that they
d. not hold the workmen responsible
and that the rsgretable events were
mot caused By the workingmen's move.
nent, which u economic and politacal,
but that their oausss arc In the lons
continued general disorder which haa
reiGpod In the region oWtDe solely "a