The evening world., 1909-03-11
CAPTAIN
TELLS Of CRASH
ANDPER|L0F 100
With Bow of His Steamer in
Side of the Hall, He Pushed
Sinking Vessel to Shore.
TOOK OFF PASSENGERS.
With His Own Steamer Rap
idly Filling, He Beached Her
When About to Go Down
TOOK OFF PASSENGERS.

ORLEANS, Mass, March li.-Capt
John A. Thompson, OF the wrecked
steamer r. f. Dimock to-day told to
The Evening World correspondent the
story Of the collision Of his vessel with
the Horatlo Hall
We left New York at 4 O'Clock
Tuesday afternoon in moderate fog "
he said. There was nothing out of the
ordinary run until after We reached the
Cross Rip, when It breezed up sharply
from the south and the blacklist fog
think ever saw set in. Just after |
had rounded the Pollock Rip Lightship.
about S o'clock yesterday morning, |
first heard the horn Of the Hall"
Before I realized it the vessels came
together with a crash The Dimock cut
big into the hull OF the Hall
Held Steamer in Gap.
After the collision saw At once
that the Hall was going to go under,
and ! put the Dimock full speed ahead
into the cash In her side 10 keep the
water out and to get the Hall into
shoal water 80 her decks would be
above the surface.
While held the Dimock in the Halls
side We took aboard the passengers Of
the Hall, After the Hall took bottom we
backed away TO see what damage we
had sustained
Il patched the Dimock's bows with
canvas as we'll as could and filled our
aft tanks TO raise her bow out OF water.
Then got UP anchor when the fog
lifted, and as the sea was rising, xot
10 leeward OF the Hall so her men.
who were alongside her in the boats,
could drop down to us, and We took
them aboard. Then started north. At
the end Of an hours run from the Pol
lock Rip Lightship found more water
in the hold than the sounding tube had
shown us, as the tube had been stopped
up, There was seven feet of water in
the fOrehOld, and II showed there was
an unsupported hole somewhere in the
bottom.
II had over one hundred people on
board at this time, and as | had only
two lifeboats of my own and one Of
the Halls ] headed the DImock for
the nearest land at full speed.
Before we got into seven fathoms
the ship was five feet down by the
head, and was listed to port 30 de-
grees. The Dimock went on tile beach
easily at l.+5 yesterday afternoon. and
with all those people aboard it was n
relief To hear her hit the sand
The Dmock could not have kept
afloat five minutes LONGER.
Both Steamers In Bad Way.
THE life savers OF the orleans sta
ton promptly came to our assistance,
and Capt. Charles landed the passen.
gers and crew quickly and safely"
CHATHAM. Mass. March ia rous-
Ing gale from the northwest to-day was
sweeping the scene of the collision be-
tween the steamers II. f. Dimock and
Horatio Hall. Clear weather disclosed
the upper deck and pilot-house OF the
Hall Just above the water in Pollock
Rip Slue, with the steamer North Star,
the same line, standing alongside the
sunken vessel. Fifteen miles away on
the OF side of Cape Cod lay the strand.
ed Dimock, her stern swung around
broadside to the beach and the tide
flowing into great gap In her star.
board bow big enough for a horse and
wagon to pass through.
The passengers OF the two steamers
and the crew Of the Horatio Hall, who
were landed through the surf yesterday
by the llte-savers with six coal-passers
from the DImock, who came ashore
early this morning, took a morning
train from Orleans for their destins.
tions. leaving the two steamers in the
hands Of the wreckers,
With the Dimock ashore on Nause,
Beach, the Hall sunk In Pollock RIP
Slue, the steamer Massachusetts, ashore
on Marthas Vineyard and the barker.
tine Ladysm'th on the beach at Fisher
Island, It was apparent that the fog
yesterday was unusually banlIng to
navigation. and that there would be
plenty q. wrecking operations for some
weeks 10 come,
The Ave men who remained on the
Hail after the Dlmock LEI, her were
taksa of BY shs Cream early to-day.