Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-09-09
Situation Remains Serious, Though
1t is Believed That the Crisis
Has Passed.
CONFEDERATION NOT SUBOUED.
Newspapers Place the Loss at Be.
tween Fifty Million and Seventy.
five Million Dollars.

81 tNclS ouIBi sept " a. H. me
UPRISING in the Baku district, accord
Ing to the latest dispatches, has apapr-
entity passed the crisis, though the situ-
alton is sim serious and order is far
from having been restored. In the oil
district and even IN the city Of Baku
the belligerent factions are taking
every opportunity to commit murder
and apply the torch. Troops are stead
ily arriving in the district. the number
of achievements to reach there up
10 noon Yesterday being 5000 and 9TH
ers are ON the way.
The connagrations in the pumping os-
adjustments and reservoirs at Balak-
han, Romnl. Sabunto and Bibiebat have
not been sublued, but incendidrism
apparently has not made headway In
the refinery district of 'Blacktown,'
The dispatches received up TO this
hour bring "A mass of details concern
Ing the events Of the week, but the
rev Information is Of comparatively
small Importance and the extent of the
losses has not yet been established
Representatives Of the oil companies
are yet ignortant regarding what prop
erty has been burned ana what has
been saved.
Some of the larger companies are
taking a more optimistic view Of the
losses since the receipt Of dispatches
showing that the troops have been
able to prevent the wholesale destruc-
ton Of the rehnerios In the Black
town quarter. which are among the
most important factors IN the Indus
Try
According to a director Of the Nobel
company, the loss In the pumping and
pipe line equipment though heavy, is
not irreparable and is nothing I'M COM
parson with the damage which would
have been caused by the total demolI-
ton OF the rehneries
Tho stock of crude fuel oil and uaph-
tina IN the reservoirs, the director said,
Is not at present very large, as the
companies have been shipping IL since
the opening of navigation on the Nolga
and large part OF the winter accumu-
lation is now In the hands of consum-
era.
lie declared. however, that it would
be matter OF SIX months before the
derrlcks and pumping establishments
could be rebuilt, and that meanwhile
tho productive activity would be at q
standsull The daily potential loss,
he said, would be several hundred
thousand dollars to the companies,
while the consumers OF fuel oil would
sufcr heavily because Of the ascending
scale Of prices.
The dispatch said that he feared II
would be difiCult to get the workmeu
10 return TO the oil fields as those
among the Armenians and Russians
who escaped death have lost everything
they possessed and We're reluctant 70
again SO TO the place where they had
ON two occasions heeu exposed 20 fear
iu danger
The newspaper estimates place the
loss at between $4,000 coo and Sij,0OO,-
0O0. but their bases Of calculation are
open to question. The larger establish-
monta are financially able TO stand the
blow, but some or the smaller ones
have been hard hit Minister Of Finance
Kukovso, contemplates the issuance I'M
mediately Of an order postponing the
payment Of the maturing obligations
to the oil companies and Is also endeaN-
uring 10 effect an arrangement for tho
extension Of the credit of private banks
and the annulment Of the penalty
clauses for non-deliNery IN contracts,
The oil men are hopeful that the cm-
ptror's order to the vceroy Of the Cau-
casus To take measures not only for
the present but Tor the future protec-
ton Of the oil industry I'm the Baku
district win result In the adoption of
gone of the recommendation which
they have long been pressing upon the
authorities and iu the permanent I'M
provement of conditions In the Caucas-
Us.
PEACE PARTIALLY RESTORED,
Tlnis Sent. S.-Thc commander Of
the forces here today received the fol-
lowing telegram from the governor OF
Rsku;
Peace between the hostile factions
has been partially restored, hut isolat-
ed cases OF shooting continue. There
we're many iucendnry fires last NIGHT,
but n is believed there was no loss of
lfc. one regiment has arrived al TinIs. !
and further achievements are anNi- |
ously awaited from Nladikovas and |
other places I'm tho northern Cau- |
CCsus the local militia IL being rapidly |
organized under regular officers and |
non commisisoned officers. The gov |
ernOr Of Astr4khan has sent a guam |
tity Of bread to Baku for the starving |
people,
Disbursements have been sent to
Shusha.
THE general commanding the troops |
I'm tho Chushua district has sent re- |
assuring telegram regarding the situa- |
tlon there In the villages of Achilla |
Akbulaeb and Charmantkhi, In the |
OF Elizabethpol. part Of the |
population has been annihilated. The |
remainder Ned. All the houses IN these
villages were plundered and then burn |
ed
"Tartars have surrounded the VILE |
lagos Of Edilu and Bukutan ana large |
bands of Tartars are marching on Ga
drul ana other villages