Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-09-07
The News From Province in
Russia is of the Gloomiest
Character
OIL INDUSTRY IS AFFECTED
American and Tartar Factions Have
Got Beyond Control of tho Troops
Rioters Arc Setting Fire to Property
and Lives Of tho Inhabitants Are
Constantly in Danger.

ST. Petersburg, Sept. 1.-THE news
from Baku received UP to the time of
filing of this dispatch Is Of the gloom
lest character. The Armenian and
Tartar warning factions now appear to
be entirely beyond control. The streets
of Baku seem to be unsafe for the In
habitants and the force of troops to be
inadequate to restrain the anarchial
Tendencies OF the combatants in the
surrounding regions. According to re-
liable reports the troops have been
forced to withdraw from the suburb of
Balakhan, where on Tuesday the riot
ers set fire to the oil works. and that
place is now In the hands Of the Tar
tars who have completed the work of
destruction aud who it is said massa-
cred the Inhabitants who did not ac-
company the troops in their retire.
ment. Telephone and railroad COM
munications between Baku and the
suburban centers is cut and late last
night it was reported that the wires
into Baku were down.
The viceroy Of the Caucasus has dis
patched reinforcements of troops from
Titiis, but owing to the conditions
turnout the whole Of 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, their fight Is desperate
and the soldiers are using artillery.
OIL industry Damaged.
RAnrAGAn IN tfvoa ia inducfrv
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 inroads into the re-
mainder Of the oil territory.
The Baku representative OF a prom
anent oil company has telegraphed to
his st. Petersburg headquarters as fol-
lows:
ut Is no longer question Of saving
our property, but one Of getting out
alive"
A press dispatch from Baku. approx
Cd by the censor, says:
"The rival factions are concentrating
In their own quarters here, The situa-
ton Is exceedingly tense. Murders are
frequent. Cannonading is heard from
time to time. In the Moslem quarter
the patrols have been fired upon.
Balakhan is on fire and the Armenians
are surrounded by armed villagers,
apparently Tartars.' and the cannon
aiding there is unceasing. The fire con-
tinues In the black town quarter and
IN Bibiebat. Energetic measures and
heavy reinforcements Of troops are
Immediately necessary
Hot Fight 10 Going On.
Other advices state that hot fight
A going on between Armenians and
Tartars at Bibiebat and that great
fires are still raging at Sabunto and
Nomani, fed by immense tanks Of
naphtha, OF which there are 1000 in
that region, and that the confiagration
at Baku. where up to last evening the
tanks OF the society of the Baku We're
intact, IL steadily increasing. Under
these conditions, with fighting going on
IN the streets, and with hurricane
blowing, the advices say it will be all
most impossible to extinguish the fires.
OIL men assembled at ST. Petersburg
yesterday, promulgated measures
which they deemed imperative, and
which they presented to Finance Min
ister Kokovsoff ,Thesa measures,
which probably viii 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 inflammatory ele-
ments, namely the Armenians and Tar
tars, be entirely excluded from the Oil
region. The oil men declare that they
do not hold the workmen responsible,
and that the regrettable events We're
not caused by the working mems move
ment. which IL economic and political,
but that their causes are deep rooted
IN the long continued general disorder
which has reigned in tho region owing
solely to rivalry among the races.