The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1909-03-19
STEAMERS Crash
OFF CAPE COD
The Hofatis Hall and the n. +.
Dim8ck In Collision.


blowing their way through Pollock
Rip Slue, of the heel of Cape Cod,
about o'clock A. NJ, the steamer
Horatio Hall, bound from Portland
for New York, and the steamer HI.
F. Dinnock from New York for Bos-
ton, collided.
The Dimock cut her way into the
port side of the Hall almost to the
mainmast, a distance of about 20
feet and then her captain, John A.
Thompson, ordering full speed ahead
kept her nose in the gap and showed
the wounded vessel across the Slue
to the western side, where she gound-
ed on sand bank and filled with
water.
While, the Dimock's nose was act
ing as collision. mattress, the five
passengers on board the Hall, includ-
ing two Misses Ruth and
Curlie Bnstrom-were swung across
the deck of the former, and some
of the crew followed them. After
the Hall had settled upon the bot
tom and her decks were about awash
the remainder of those on board
her, with the exception Of Capt. HI.
F. Jewell, First Officer James Parker,
of New York, the pilot and two sea-
men lowered a lifeboat and rowed
to the Dimock, where they were TAX
en- aboard.
Captain Jewell refused to leave
his vessel and the others decided to
stay with him. They are in no great
danger, as they have lifeboats in
plenty, the revenue cutter Gresham
is in the neighborhood and only at
high water will they be obliged to
take to rigging.
Water Rushed In.
The settling of the Hall upon the
sandbank did not complete the story
of this mai inc occurrence, for the
Dimock in driving wedgelike hole
into the side of the other craft had
a cash eight feet wide torn in her
starboard bow, through which the
water began to come almost immedi-
ately. At first the pumps handled
the inflow without difficulty, but
when the Dimock tried to steam up
along the Cape Cod beach on her
way to Boston a rising sea began
to send a greater volume of water
into the opening.
This was about noontime and soon
the weight of the water in the COM
partment began to put the craft
down by the bows, as well as give
her li.t to port. There was danger
Of the steamer sinking and Captain
Thompson had a lifeboat swung out
on the davits, and into this he
placed the two women taken from
the Hall, with Mrs. and Miss Casey,
of Melrose Hillside, Mass, passengers
on the Dimock. They were wrapped
in blankets and told to remain in
the boat, as, in case the vessel went
down, they would be saved. Orders
were also issued by Captain Thomp-
son to the men passengers and sea-
men not to take to boat until ne
gave the word. Under these trying
conditions, with the Dimock in dan
ger of plunging to the bottom any
minute, Captain Thompson crowded
on all steam and made for the Or
leans beach.
The craft struck her keel into the
sand about half a mile south OF the
Orleans Life-saving Station at 2.l5
O'Clock p. NJ, and the footing of her
whistle speedily brought lifeboats
from the Orleans, Old Harbor and
Nauset Stations alongside.
Crew Stays On Board.
The passengers of both vessels and
the crew of the Horatio Hall were
brought ashore, the officers and crew
of the Dimock remaining on board
to aid in wrecking opers tons, which
will begin as soon as the tugs I'm
derwriter and Orion and the big
lighter Salvage reach the scene.