Show SCOTT PERISHES IN HOUR OF TRIUMPH TRIUMPH i ANTARCTIC EXPLORER AND COMPANIONS COM COM- j PAN IONS PERISH ON RETURN t JOURNEY FROM SOUTH POLE I Storm Overwhelms Brave Band of Five After They Had Reached Souther- Souther most Point and When They Were Within Eleven Miles of Station London After After shaving having reached the south uth pole Captain Robert Falcon Scott and four of his comrades perished perish perish- ed on their return journey and when within tout but ut eleven miles of safety This startling news has just been received here The Tho story which r 1 will com come as a distinct shock to the civilized civil zed world reached London early Monday morning but was not made public for several hours News of the tragedy comes from the Term Nova which arrived at New Zealand on Mon Mon- Monday Monday day aay with the remainder of the ill ill- fated expedition under the command p pf Pr Lieutenant Evans The The four men who perished with t Sc tt were vere p Dr Ar E E. A A. Wilson chiei i of t scientifiC staff z zoologist alai and Artist Lieutenant nant H. H B B. Bowers of of the Ro Royal 31 Indian marine in fn charge I Ithe the commissariat riat Captain E G. G Oates Dates of the dragoons in jn charge h arge of the dogs and ponies Edgar Evans petty officer In do charge of the sledges and algid equipment This party of intrepid explorers Reading beading the the British Antarctic expedition expedition tion which set forth with such bright right hopes bopes of reaching the south pole and andt which t was regarded as one of the best CAPT ROBERT F. F SCOTT ry 1 In c f z 4 Intrepid British explorer who ho headed head head- headed ed an expedition In search of the south louth pole quipped equipped expeditions that ever set out apon a similar mission reached the south pole January 18 1912 and then perished miserably in In Ina a driving blizzard bliz zard card on the journey back After attaining the pole they faced about for Sor the re return urn to civilization For two months they struggled to get back to one ton depot which they had established miles north of the ultimate south But Dut one by one they died on n the way pray Seaman Evans died from ram concussion of the brain on February Feb ovary 17 Captain Oates died from exposure on March 17 Captain Scott Lieutenant Bowers land and Dr Wilson died from exposure and starvation during a blizzard about March 29 The warm sy sympathy pathY of the whole hole world will go out to Mrs Scott in in her r bereavement She left England England Eng land and last month for New Zealand and tho the heartbreaking news of the calamity calam calam- ity awaits her there She sailed from San Ban Francisco February 5 5 The news of Scotts Scott's death only reached his relatives through the newspapers Lady Ellison MacArtney the explorers explorer's sister was the first to learn of his fate and she telephoned the news to Mrs Scott Captain Captains Captain's tt's s 's aged mother at Henley Mrs Scott had not felt any apprehension f for the fate tate of her ber r son but bore up very bravely bravel The Dail Daily Mail says It is a tragedy tragedy trag trag- edy as overpowering as Franklins Franklin's end in the Arctic more than sixty years ago The victory is walled up In death In the house 01 oL commons the news created create a great sensation The first lord Of ck tt the admiralty Winston Vinston Churchill was bombarded with questions ques questions ques ques- as to whether any official I mation had been received by the ad- ad I ad-I J office Mr Churchill had to explain that no news had been received received received re re- officially The news of the a appalling lIng disaster which befell Captain Scott and his I companions was brought to New Zealand JJ by a signaled message from the tho Terra Nova the vessel which had carried the explorer and nd hl his expedition ex ex- ex to to the Antarctic and which late last year rear went once again to the south to bring him and his companions companions companions compan compan- ions back Iback Captain Scotts Scott's party reached tho the exact point where Roald bald Amundsen planted the Norwegian flag at the south pole They found there the hut constructed and left behind by Amundsen's party These facts were recorded in the documents found on the bodies of the explorers when the they were recovered G G. F F. Wyatt business manager of the ill fated expedition after receiving receiving ing the tho news said It was Scotts Scott's original intention to take sixteen men with him in the main traveling party part and after reaching reaching reach reach- ing a certain distance four of these were to return and the rest were to continue At 11 another er point four more were to return l the rest continue At another W tea four w were re to return leaving f l ft th 1 ith S to make the final h hIt It Is la evidently e this tilts final four who have have haye b been en lost Those who did did not make the final journey were wore to await the he return of ot Scott and the gallant four foal 1 gbh Q him bim I Vh e 6 ale are re not yet in possession I of the deta details ls of how ho Scott and his his his' parts part parti met death yet we know they Will contain stories pf of splendid 1 9 ism on the part pact aH of the rs Scotts Scott's Diary Tells Story A number of or details of the t th disaster in which Captain Scott and lour four of his men perished in the Antarctic are brought in special dispatches to the Central News service Captain Oates evidently set out from the tent In which the four men had Md all but sue sue- to starvation and exhaustion to death alone lone in the blizzard which had overwhelmed whelmed them After a brave struggle for weeks with his hands forst forst bitten Oates declared declared de de- to his comrades that he w was s going to set out in the storm ana didn't know when walen he would come comeback back He left the tent and he was never seen again He evidently knew he was setting out t to meet his death alone The others later tried to push on but were forced Into camp again n on March 21 after nine days' days struggle In Inthe inthe inthe the blizzard Food and fuel were both exhausted Probably realizing that his party was d' d doomed omed Captain Scott entered In his diary four days later later on on March 25 a message to the public In this he declared that t the disaster was not not due to faulty organization but to mis fortune He said nobody in the world could expect t to successfully encounter such temperatures and storms as they had met on the barrier which so retarded retarded re reo re- re t their progress progress' When they arrived arrived arrived ar ar- ar- ar rived within eleven eleve miles of One Ton depot they only had fuel for one hot meal and food for two days The doomed doomed- explorer wrote apologetically apologetically apolo of his notes He said these and tine bodies must tell teU the tale He appealed to his countrymen for the care of th those se dependent upon the perishing explorers News of the death of Captain Scott and his men who s succeeded by a final dash in rea reaching hing the South pole only to find proof that Roald Amundsen had forestalled them came me in a brief dispatch from E E. R R. R G G. G R R. Evans of the royal navy who w was s s second ond in command when the expedition started and who now signs as Commander The message was signaled from the steamer Terra Nova returning from the regions while passing New Zealand Zeland Other Explorers Shocked by News New York Read Read Admiral Robert E. E Peary N N. S. S N N. re retired ired who received a gold ld medal and the thanks of or congress congress con can gress as the first man to attain the north pole said when he ire received the news of the death of Captain Scott and his companions The news comes to me as a tel ter terrible terrible ter- ter shock Mrs Scott and the tho wives and relatives of the brave men who perished with Captain Scott and the whole British nation have my deepest sincerest and most heartfelt sympathy and condolence Madison Wis Vis Captain Captain Raold Amundsen received the news new's at La Cr Crosse The captain said he was too dazed t to speak but finally said It is hard to believe this There must be some some horrible mistake e. e It seems Incredible that such a large party should perish in this way New York r I I cannot believe it is true It is inconceivable that an expedition ex ex- expedition as as' as well equipped as es Captain Scotts Scott's was could ouid have perished before before be bo- Lieutenant Sir Ernest Ern Ern- Ernest fore a b blizzard est the British explorer and one time association of oC C Captain Scott so expressed himself when shown hown the dispatch from Croni New Zealand telling of tue the fate rate of oC Captain Scott and party |