The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-03-11
YDIMMOCK KEPT
 NOSE IN THE HALLS SIDE UNTIL SAFE
After Collision S6e Pushed the Portland Steamer Ashore Before Backing Away.
LATER IT WAS, NECESSARY TO BEACH THE DIMMOCK-STORY
 OF THE CRASH IN TE.E FOG IN
 POLLOCK RIP YESTERDAY

! BEACH THE DIMMOCK-STORY
 OF THE CRASH IN TEIE FOG IN
 POLLOCK RIP YESTERDAY
 MORNING.
 Boston. March 11.-While ploughing ftheir way through Pollock Rip slue. Foff the heel of Cape Cod about 8 o'clock yesterday morning the steamer tHoratio Hall. bound from Portland for tNew York. and the steamer H. F. Di- mock from New York for Boston, col fIided.
 The Dimock cut her way into the port side of the Hall almost to the captain. John A. Thompson. ordering full speed ahead. kept her nose in the I gap and showed the wounded vessel across the slue to the western side. where she grounded on a sand bank and filled with water.
 While the Dimock's nose was acting as collision mattress the five pas lsengers on board the Hall. including two women. Miss Ruth Enastrom and Miss Gurli. Emstrom. were swung swung across to the deck of the form CT. and some of the crew followed them.
 After the Hall had settled to the tbottom and her decks were about tawash the remainder of the people on .board her. except Capt H. F. Jewell, First Officer James Parker of New tYork, the pilot and two seamen. low tered a Hfeboat and rowed to the Di- mock. where they were taken aboard. ,and the others decided to stay with !him. They are in no great danger as lthey have 1ifeboats in plenty. The revenue cutter Gresham is in the will they be obliged to take to the rig ging.
 The settling of the Hall upon the sand bank did not complete the story, in, ri .11oIe into the side of the other craft lhad a gash eight feet wide torn in her tstarboard bow. through which the wa tier began to come aImn~@ immediately. tAt first the pumps handled the inflow without difficulty. but when the DiAAock ifried to steam up along the Capef Cod beach on her way to Boston a rising .eea began to send a dangerous volume of water into the opening.
 There was danger of the steamer isinking and Capt Thompson had into this he placed the two women taken from the Hall with Mrs. and Miss Casey of Melrose Hillside, Mass messengers on the Dimock. They were wrapped in blankets and told to re- ;1nain in the boat. so that if the vessel Invent down they would be saved. Or ,ders were also issued by Capt. Thomp- ison to the men passengers and sea
 men not to take to 2 boat until he gave the word.
 Under these trying conditions. with lthe D1mOck Tn Qanger or plung1ng to sthe bottom any minute, Capt. Thomp- .sen crowded on all steam and made flor the Orleans beach. The craft struck her keel into the sand about half a mile south of the Orleans life saving station at 2:i5 yesterday afternoon and the footing of her whistle soon brought ; s,1ifeboats from the Orleans Old liar ibor and Nauset stations
 The passengers on 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 wreckfng operations which will begin as soon as the tugs Underwater and Orion and the big lighter Salvage reach the scene. these craft having started from Boston late last evening The chances are that the Dimock will be foated again. The passengers from the vessels and the sailors brought ashore remained in Orleans last night and will proceed to their destinations to-day.
 The Horatio Hall sailed from Port land having 700 tons of freight on sboard and five passengers: Miss Ruth Enstrom and Miss GurIi Emstrom of Brooklyn. M. T. Marks of 561 Broad way. New York: W: S. Marie of Bidde- ford. Me- and Michael Dolan of New York It was raining and thick wealth CT The Hall had just passed the gas ouoy in Pollock Rip slue when the whistle of another steamer was heard. The Hall veered a little to the west ward. as the sound of the approaching steamer indicated that she was headed directly for her. Then in less time man 1t takes to tell it the Dimock Durst out from the fog into full view ana oroye her bow deep into the side