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Show RAMMED IN A DENSE FOG Chatham, Mass., March 10. Blanketed Blank-eted by a dense fog, tho steamers Horatio Hall from Portland for Now York, and H. F. Dimock. from New-York New-York for Boston, met in the middlo of the narrow channel, known as Pollock Rip Slue, today, with a crash that sent the Hall to the bottom, within half an hour, and caused the Dimock to run ashore six hours later on Cape Cod beach, whero the passengers and the crew of the Hall were landed unharmed, un-harmed, A brief wireless message which the operator of the sinking Hall managed to send broadcast, spread the news of the collision, but as he failed to give the position, details of the disaster did not become known until the Dimock Di-mock came ashore shortly after 2 p. m. During the six hours of silence, wireless wire-less stations on the coast were vainly endeavoring to locato the collision, while revenue cuttuers searched the coast to render assistance As the fog cleared later in the afternoon after-noon the Dimock was seen heading for the beach and half an hour later a boat's crew with the five passengers from the Hall, including two women, landed. It is apparent that there was a misunderstanding of signals, for the two steamers suddenly loomed out of the fog and before either could sheer off they crashed together. Captain Thompson of Dimock started start-ed to back his steamer, but seeing that he might save those on the Hall, sent her full speed ahead, held her nose into the Jagged rent In the Hall and as he pushed the latter over toward shoal water on the side of the slough, the five passengers on the Hall were dragged drag-ged over the tangled mass of wreckage to the deck of the Dimock. All the passengers pas-sengers were from western cities. |