Show a baku Is in hands of insurgents while are helpless and oil industry Is ruined baku sept 7 6 p m tho situation here tonight shows no signs of amelioration it could hardly be worse the terror stricken inhabitants are fleeing from the city knowing that the garrison is utterly inadequate to protect them and although abo worst cenes of fire and massacre have not yet occurred in baku itself none daro think how far tho excesses may proceed the entire oil and commercial quarters of babakan Ba lakan sagunto and no danl have been out by alre and the inhabitants remaining behind were massacred and thrown into the flames continues TO burn and Is threatened with the same tato as bal akan tho consulates banks and buildings in baku a re guarded by troops all of tha english residents and almost all other inhabitants ot the better class have boarded the ships and gone to sea to escape from danger all available steamers have ben employed for this purpose martial law has been proclaimed in the city nobody Is allowed on tiie streets after 8 clock at night and inhabitants 0 houses are held strictly responsible for shots fired from them arul lery was employed against one bouse from shots were fired abe walls were breached iao house was stormed and all the people inside were killed there Is a general panic in the city A whole army of hungry workmen driven in from the burned suburbs has cocked into the city there is the utmost destitution reinforcements of troops are arriving daily and it Is hoped tho authorities soon will have me situation bee ter in hand following is a brief review in sequence of the events of the last six days as witnessed at baku on the atter noo of saturday last reports began running from mouth to mouth that the tartars and armeni ans were each other immediately there waa great alarm and a panic prevailed stores ware closed and windows and doors bar ricadel rica ded twenty minutes later sounds ot rifle firing were heard from the various quarters of the city and everybody wished to flee but no one could tell whether safety lay within or out the city two hours later patrols of cossacks and other soldiers armed with rifles began to arrive from the barracks and these troops immediately engaged the rioters tha firing between the warring factions continued all of saturday night on sunday the situation showed no and firing was in progress all the day the streets being deserted except for the combatants no dared to leae tho houses at on sunday evening the reflection on the sky 0 bre in black town quarter was noticed the flight tram the city soon became general everybody who was able to do so leaving by this time provisions had become scarce and percies were soaring on bonday burning scooting killing and plundering continued and 0 refinery which was in flames beyond lit up the sky in that direction A big wood yard in baku also caught fire and a strong wind tanned the flames which soon spread to circus and adjacent houses the alre continued all of tuesday breaking out in several new places embracing tho railroad station and a number of armenian bouses in different quarters of tho city during wednesday fugitives from babakan began to arrive here and told ot the indescribable horrors they had witnessed all the oil works they said were in tho hands of tartars Tar tars who were pillaging tho houses 0 russian and armenian workmen carrying away everything of value and burning the buildings ten thousand workmen they said would bo left in poverty and they believed that babakan would bo totally destroyed at 5 wednesday afternoon the situation wa somewhat quieter tartars and armenians Armen ians were running through the streets crying peace and a little later a hosae made up of both races with clergymen at its head went through the town but the efforts toward a cessation of fighting were not effective for tho firing went on all wednesday night the soldiers however continue their efforts to repress the disorders and by thursday morning matters were more orderly everywhere the streets today are deserted and the stores banks and other public places are closed hardly anybody venturing out A pall of heavy black smoke hangs over baku and its suburbs the ioe in these six daya have not yet been accurately estimated it waa reported this morning that the tartars Tar tars notwithstanding their participation in the peace procession are opposed to the establishment of order and they demand a substantial cum from the authorities in lieu ot permission to continue their pillaring pilla eing boats running on the volga will doubtless have to use naphtha instead of oil th quantity of naphtha on band alu be sufficient for the river boats for at least five months but tor the activity of the the bloodshot might have been greater ban ased areat many periods ave oil industry ruined foi years st petersburg sept 8 4 5 a n inter raceal warfare and have done their work in baku and have the ruin for a year of tho great oil industry of that caspian port though mhd same dispatches indicate that th military have gained the upper hand in tho town itself and that the arriving reinforcements promise to turn the tide in tho outlying positions around the city and reoccupy the suburban towns there ia little unburned under the outlying oil fields of babakan Ba lakan romael and from which crude oil supply tor the baku oil industry l pa including derricks pumping establishment and the oil reservoirs in which the crude oil is stored have been destroyed st the breaking of the reservoirs a flood of burning oil which is impossible to extinguish A largo portion of the black town quarters in which roost ot the refineries were located was also burned the financial loss has not been established but it will run into the millions it is bated that the loss in crude oil which will run waste until the reservoirs can be rebuilt and the refineries refiner iea again started will amount to the bloodshed also has been appall ing as the troops in their efforts to restore order had to defend the approaches pro aches to the town of baku anal were forced to fight a regular batter with well armed natives in which ar tillery wag employed the tartars and armenians Armen ians in their fury turned their weapons against each other A the well to do inhabitants fled cither by sea or overland to unlike the recent troubles at odessa the dip ardora at baku cannot be traced to any underlying hostility to abo RUE elan government it is not a revolia alon but an inter raceal war between tho anna an 5 waives based on the same causes as tho struggle la armenia both factions offered a stubborn armed resistance to tho troops the tartars Tar tars after driving tho russians anil armenians Armen ians out of tho borka in he op fields massacred those who were TO able to flee in time plundered their bouses and then applied the torch the dispatch speaks of several thousand killed and wounded in at babakan Ba lakan where the tartars were en trenched in force and more than held their own for a time against tha troops it is said that the screen stan dard of the prophet had been raised and tho at baku are preaching a holy war as they did at beristan a few months ago the moslems however have no special program to carry out at this time and it is ex pecked that order wal bo restored in a few days with the arrival of sufficient troops ib Is thought however that the underlying hatred existing between armenians Armen ians and tartars will not be abated the statement that a turkish emissary is working among the tartars i believed hero to be untrue the moslems in y baku region are connected not uh turkey but with persia to which country hey fore the conquest of tie region by russia it Is expected that the arrival of the shah of persia at baku in a few days on bis way to teheran will complicate the situation and this belief probably furnished the inspiration for the imperial order to the viceroy of the caucasus to stop tho disorders at all costs the town of baku lies in a steep walled amphitheater on tho southern shore 0 the Ap shoron peninsula with tho fields on either aldo froni which pipe lines convey the oil s faw miles to the refineries n th town most of these refineries are located in the so called black town quarter the principal or Balak sui field bere the heaviest fighting has taken place Is seventeen miles northeast of baku sagunto and romael arc adjoining oil districts a small but very rich field lies on the opposite or west side of baku just outside the city limits most of th surrounding region is inhabited by tartar hill tribes ano in addition to occupying tho hillsides hill sides running doan to the pork also occupy the old fortified section in the center ot tho coira which Is probably their headquarter the tartar quarters are composed ct dirty and squalid houses in crooked streets many of the streets ara scarcely wide enough to permit individuals divi duals to pass st petersburg sept 7 p m though the dispatch from and current reports in st petersburg say that the oil works and tanks at baku have been entirely consumed and the town practically wiped ouLi according to a dispatch to the nobel company from baku this Is an error and the loss though enor is not complete this dispatch stated that the firing in the town had ceased and that he had been checked the fato of the tanks and works which are not yet ou fire depends on the wind which is bluing a hurricane Unless it changes and sweeps the fire back on the unaffected districts there is hope of saving some of the properties the sender of the dispatch was unable to give details of what had beep destroyed and smoke and flames pr a close investigation tho authorities of tho caucasus seem to have been taken completely by surprise by the magnitude of tho tartar uprising there is not the least doubt that it had long been planned and carefully organized and is connected with the separatist movement the officials 0 tiflis say they haab unmistakable proof that the revolt has been fanned by turkish emissaries and agitators bearing a green standard and I 1 0 aro idling the whole country the tartars Tar tars the officials add antena laying a regular siege to baku rhusha and other places they havar laid many villages in ruins and have lessly massacred the inhabitants lidless sufficient troops are available promptly to suppress the outbreak in the caucasus which the news from baku would show not to be the case the whole of that part of the country will be devastated and the population of the towns and villages butchered the situation la viewed in st estert burg with the utmost alarm th managers of the oil borka at baku despairing of the arrival of reinforcements of troops have telegraphed di fac to the geror the latest db patches from baku alvo gruesome details oc carnage no quarter was asked or given by the insurgents or troops in the suburbs of baku he names were spread bv a high wind one building after another 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