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Show RAMMED STEAMER SINKS, BUT ALL AREv SAVED CHATHAM, Mass., March 10. Blanketed by a dense fog, tho steamers Horatio Hail from Portland for New York, and H. F. Dimcr from New York for Boston, mot in the middle of the narrow channel, known as Pollock Hip slow, today with a crash that sent the Hall lo tho bottom within half an hour and ciutsod tho Dimcr to run ashore six hours later on Cape Cod beach, where the passengers and I he crew of the Hall wero lauded unharmed. un-harmed. A brief wireless message, which tho operator 'of tho sinking Hall managed to send broadcast, spread the news of tho collision, but as ho failed to give tho position details of tho disaster did not become known until tho Dimcr came ashoro shortly after 2 p. m. During tho Hix hours of silence half a hundred wirolcss stations, govoru-nioiit., govoru-nioiit., professional and amatour, from Portland to New London, wero vainly endeavoring to obtain somo news of the wrecks, whilo the rcvonuo cutter Gres-ltam Gres-ltam scurried up and down tho coast in a vain effort to render assistance. |