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Show l Minors i PICTURE OF SC01TS DEATH Furious Winds Sweep the Awful Wastes of Ice and Snow. NATURE AFFORDS NO PROTECTION WHATEVER Oates Walked Oat Bravely to Death to Relieve Others. CHIOAOO. rb. 12. - A thrilling pic Mire of the probable manner In which Robert F. Scott and four of tali com pinions mot death on the ire barrier cloM to th earth's eolith ere extremity pain tod verbally bj Oapt. lUold Amundaan, diaroverer of tha south pole, who waa In Chicago today. "It ie hai to sa .lust whai bap p.aad," aaid the Norwegian eiplorcr. ' hut we ran imaifia. perhaps, altbouiih horrible. We know, of enuree. that happened about tha seventy eighth parallel and that thev were down on he barrier and not on the plateau. p d just a hon t there ou r poei ti v e taowledgY stops "Certainly the; ware evoauated and isrvina; It ma he that they bad some Nntnrj araoop; them who can aayf At any rale, they erere not io a fit condition con-dition to meat the terrible htixzard ien it came. . ' ot that blixaards are uouaual. st ott waa prepared for blir.icardf. for hr was no amateur. One may always y ; - bliuarda in that rountry. But 'here they wore those poor forlorn ''allows etriiKntine along without even 'heir ponies to draw their alede. for hey had sent bark their last ponies whoa they bad reached a point 130 ilea from the pole on the lourney n 1 I; ward. Draw Their Own Sled 'They ware drawing their sleds, 'hey bad no dor, and tLat was a mis rake. 1 am afraio. Always before them ;bere stretched this awful waste of tea. Can you eee itf It ie flat ice retching right across the country, 4retcbing away so far and white that tie eye cannot hear to follow it-''And it-''And acroae the frozen surface weeps the wind furiously. The great tlat expanse offers a terrific sweep for the blast and there ia no protection ex rpt what man is able to build for Himself-" Amundsen passed hand across his even. 'And there they died. " ha aaid soft-'v soft-'v 'Of course Fvans -Pettv Officer ane had died already. He fell on 'he ice. Hut the others must have died si thin a short time of each other. ates went bravely, you know, out into the blirzard. that his sickly condition night nnt hinder the other That waa 1 great sacrifice, but It did no good. ' ' I cannot read t hat last message 1 aptain Ht-ott ' without emotion. 1 never met him personally, but I know be waa a bravo man. And to think," added the cantata 1. u billhead tinw ''lbs. whits rhnaea ;ic men wen- dving in the waste of c I wai leciimiig in warmth and com I ort in Australia. ' ' Did Not Fall Into Crevasse aptain Amundsen denied that he bad W . pgc!tcd that the men whn met death Bk 'night have fallen into a crevasse KgZ, 'It i- ridiculous. " ' lie a fever ted. "to h ink that, fhe men would fall into a rergaa. ' ' Prof- H. J. 'ox. wei.iher forcenster. Alio had listened to Ibc Norwegian ad leotarers narration, broke la: "Shackletnn nearly met the ame tate, vmt know. ' "Via, said Vmundsen. "Kliackle-lon "Kliackle-lon had a hard lime getting hark. He 'early met death, lie turned back just r time, in the er hour, in fact, to -ave his life, and he was onlv lit miles I rum the pole. "CgiB you think of the disappointment disappoint-ment in that egaaf Oale III tniles ''roin his goal' Vet it is a long distance. dis-tance. When there are railroad tracks nrl Pullman cars and comfort and good lieor. Ill miles i- nothing. There in 'he froren south it i thonands of mi leal ' ' "aptain Amundsen made it ple-n that the rate nf Sentt and his aldta would not deter him in his plans for a north rnlar expedition, heginning nexl vear Not Deterred by Scott's Fato 1 Whv should I hesitate" he asked. These affair are cm sad. but thee are reallv nneommnn. It is not what one may expect, as perhaps some of vou mar think. No, 1 sbal start, and a I oeiieTe i win u- .h"...'.! "WTiat do vou care about the north I role, captain!" ae ashed. "Nothing. " snid the explorer, swift I "I do not sect, the pete. I may k not even reach ir. 1 don t care whether gew I do. Thnfc stones tlist I am to actual f i ! seek the pole .-ire untrue. "T am poing north only on a scientific scien-tific expedition, i-hieflv to study air end ocean currents. If 1 'n close to the pole ami rondit'nne are favorable 1 will go there. n-t otherwise. The lory that I will tnke au aeroplane is intrue: it is ridiculous." Captain Amundsen cnl the following elegrnm, about the Hctt trsgedv Tommanilcr. Terra Nova. I.yttleten. V. Peep orrue- lues comrades. Congratulation" ucces. eipedition." "Kin.ov. Oliristehurch. N. 2.: ton-rev ton-rev deep sorrow Mire Mcott and Wil on loss hitbaa.l. Magnificent battle." |