The Chicago Daily Tribune; February 26, 1905
TIFLIS, Caucasia, Feb. 25- Details of the recent street fighting at Baku show that thirty-five persons were killed or wounded Feb. 20, and that on the following day the racial bitterness between the Mussulmans and Armenians reached a climax. Street murders were incessant and firing lasted all day long.
Altogether a hundred people were killed or wounded. Shops were plundered, and as the garrison was inadequate reinforcements of five battalions of infantry with artillery and two squadrons of Cossacks had to be called in and used their arms to suppress the outbreak.
Further disturbances occurred Feb. 22. The residences of the wealthiest inhabitants were plundered and burned. The governor traversed all the quarters of the city exhorting the people to cease hostilities, and the Armenians and Mussulman clergy met and embraced in public and expressed a desire for a reconciliation of their peoples. The rioting was thereupon suspended, but again broke out Feb. 24.
The people at the oil fields have been forbidden to leave their houses between 8 o’clock at night 6 in the morning under the penalty of a fine and imprisonment. […]
Source – Azeri Aggression against Armenians in Transcaucasia (1905-1921); Reports from the U. S. Press,Yerevan, 2020, edited by Ara Ketibian, pp. 5-6.
