The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1905-09-09
REA!PNG WRIRIV1Nl
llkU DISTRICT TROUBLE, ".
| BEYOND CONTROL, -
Streets Of City Unsafe for H.,
'fsnfs and Military Seem, D..
er'ess to Cope With the Sin.
f'on-Great Fires In the Of, NJ.
irict.

s wee ..n laOm -baku, Cauoasia, say thu hs.
the "Blaok town" district Of thai mat INA
is still burning and also the wo a. CIT,
Blakhan, Biblebat, Nomani and @s g.. ss
unto. The losses amount to m;,s Gao
OF roubles. Baku is oyerhnra lons
dense clouds Of smoke and tho a WIN
OF burning buildings illumipatad' l .sa
city all night long. '1 'ns
st. Petersburg. Sept. The ,.n.
from Baku received up to the tina a'"s W
filing this dispatch is Of the oloom; "
character. The Armenian and Ta".
warning factions now appear to ba ' "a
tirely beyond control. The street. w. :.
Baku seem to be unsafe for the ;nb,u "
itants and the force of troops to ho ~
adequate to restrain the anarcb;o.,
tendencies of the com battants in ths
surrounding region. '
According to reliable reporta n,
troops have been forced to withdrom
from the suburb of Balakhan. whs,.
Tuesday the rioters set fire to the o;I
works, and that place is now in ths
hands Of the Tartars, who have COM
pleted the work of destruction. and
who. it is said, massacred the inhah.
itants who did not accompany thu
troops in their retirement. Telephon;o
and railroad communication between
Baku and the suburban oil centers i,
cut, and late last night it was reported
that the wires into Baku were cut,
Soldiers Use Artillery,
Ths vioeroy of the Caucasus bss
despatched reinforcements of troou
from Tifiis, but owing to the cond
tions throughout the southern part Of
the Caucasus with these reinforce.
ments the troops will be inadequate to
cope with the situation. In the SUBJ
urban region the fighting is desperate
and the soldiers are using artillery.
Representatives Of the oil industry
here are utterly respondent, and they
declare that on the basis of the tels
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 Roadway into the re-
mainder Of the oil territory.
Question of Life and Death.
The Baku representative of prom.
inent company has telegraphed to bis
st. Petersburg headquarters:
1T is no longer a question OF say.
ing our property, but one Of getting
out alive"
A press dispatch from Baku, approx
ed by the censor, Gays:
tsThe rival factions are concentrat'
ing in their quarters here. The STU
alton is exceedingly tense. Murders
are frequent. Cannonading is heard
from time to time. The patrols have
been fired upon, and the Armenlans
are surrounded by armed villagers, ap
earently Ta1tars, and the cannonading
there is increasing. Energetic meas
ures and heavy reinforcement OF troops
are Immediately necessary"
Other advices state that bot hgnt
is going on between Armenians and
Tartars at Bibleat and that great nfs
are still raging at Sabunto and so@
ami, fed by the immense tanks OF nap
tina, of which there are 1900 IN tnSs
region, and that the conaagratlon !"
Baku, where up to last evening .n'
tanks of the society Of Baku were ~
tact, is steadily increasing. onue'
these conditions, fighting going Oh ~
the streets and the hurricane olowins'
the advices say it will be almost i~
possible to extinguish the fires.
Oilmen who assembled at st. fe'el.
burg yesterday formulated measa ana
which they deemed imperative a a;.l
which they presented to Finan0.s'
Minister Kokovsoff. These measu' .ss
which probably will be laid oelolo . So
emperor, after detailing the cau ast
leading up to the present sltuauo H. h +,
that the oil works be surrounoou 49,:
troops, and that the warning eie~1 Ts,'
namely, the Armenians ana 'no -. ali
sars, be entirely excluded from '.v .hs,
region. The. oil men declare sns' ' ,I
do not hold the workmen respop'..
and that the regretable even~ AVA, "u
not caused by the workingmen = ,: n
ment, which is economic ana pon lone
but that their causes are In tn1 hss
continued general disorder wn'v ,a,, 10
reigned in the region owing s0''''
rivalry among the races.
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