CHILI AND PERU.—NAVAL ENGAGEMENT
... CHILI AND PERU.-NAVAL ENGAGEMENT TRREE VESSELS SUNK. The following telegraphia intelligence was on Thursday afternoon received at Lloyds:- An engagement has taken place off Iquique be- tween the (Ihilian wooden vessels Esmeralda and Covadonga and the Peruvian armour-plated frigate Independencia, when all three sank. The Esme- ralila is stated to have been originally a Spanish gunboat. The ...