, 1891-03-25
FEARFUL SCENE
Fight to a Finish in a Burning
CHILEAN Town.
A Two Million Dollar Loss
Incurred by Fire.
Congressman DOckerY's Calcu .
lations Of Appropriations.

PANAMA, March 24.-H. NJ. S. War
spite is at Callna. The following has
been Cleaned from her officers. I'VE
left lquique Feb. 20, subsequent to dit.
ferent events which led to our capture at
that port, bv rebels and fire, which caused
the destruction of property valued at
$4,000, 900. 1t appears that when the
rebels captured the port the government
troops took up a position some distance
from 1t. The rebels returned on board,
leaving only fifty men in charge. The
government troops soon heard of this and
marched on the place 200 strong, under
the command of Col. Soto. Firing COM
menced on the shore aud a fusilade led
the ships TO promptly open fire. Blanca,
Encalada, Esmeralda and Hascar used
heavy guns while the transports kept
mitralleuses busily employed.
Tremendous destruction then followed
and flames spread until the whole central
part of Iquiaue, where the best stores aud
buildings are situated, were in RUNS. Up to
the Goth when the Marspite left iquique,
the ruins were yet burning. The fight
which resulted in the FIRE, was a stern aud
bloody tragedy. and it would have been
more prolonged had it not been for the
arrangement reached by the chiefs of the
two parties. And under which the
opposition leaders engaged TO pay Col.
Soto $4,000 to deliver among his men
those who were then to join the rebels.
The government troops abandoned their
arms and soon dispersed.
Subsequently, SOTO was arrested and sent
m hrnrd thu a uuagnn.g aaa,,r.l s l...u-
distributed only 81 600 among the men
and having retained the remaining So
900. Those on hoard the Warspite also
informed that Col. Robes had 1000 OF
Balmaceda troops on the pamIas and it
was possible that they would again attack
lquique 10 which port, aud its vicinity,
revOlutiouists stated they had ZOO men.
They were however. short of ammunition
but were expecting some by steamer.
lqulque Is in abnormal situation and the
inhabitants have taken refuge on the is
land, where they have previously been
stationed
Pisagua has been abandoned by the
pcpulace. Iudente of Iquique sought
refuge on the WarsUite and subsequently,
lett on the cable steamer Silver Town for
Valparaiso. The report is confirmed of a
hight at San Francisco in which Gen. V.
Auaklah was hllltl anu where the rebels
were defeated. In a fight at Iquiaue ON
the 18th about 200 persons were killed.
Some OF that number lost their lives
through their own imprudenee. The
office OF the daily newspaper TOs de ChH,
which supported the government, was
sacked aud burned. The Warspite gave
passage TO Callao to ll5 persons of differ
cut nationalties.
The steamship Vile de Belfast reports
tina; 800 were killed aud wounded from
the outcome of fights on 1arapagt pam
pas Lima DIaro said IN Feb. Is that
the present revolution threatens to result
IN serious international conflicts Peruvian
territory ha1 already been violated BY the
Chilian troops. A report received from
Panama OF March 7 states that when
the forces Of Valparaiso fired on
Blauco Engalio. killing several
of her crew, that the cOmmandlng
officer solicited permission from the shore
authorities TO buoy IIruI and the answer
he received was that he might bury them
IN the sea. The commander of Blancu
EncAlida thersupou retired to the cap
tain OF Her Nsjrsty's ship Champion and
the latter significantly replied Request
me to bury them aui | shall do So" The
request was acc irdingly formally made,
whereupon the Brush commander had
the CHILEAN seamen taken ashore under
the protection of the British flag aud
buried.