Show SCOTT PERISHES IN HOUR OE OF trie 1 ah ANTARCTIC EXPLORER AND companions PERISH ON RETURN RN JOURNEY FROM SOUTH POLE ulora overwhelm brave grave band of five filter after they hid reached souther most point and when they were ere within eleven mile miles of station london alter having boac hed the iole captain robert falcon scott and four of his comrades comra doa perish sd 0 on their journey and when It liln but cloven miles of safety this startling now hag has juet just been received led hero here tho tile story which will boino as a distinct shock to tho civil iced world reached london early monday morning but was mas not mado made for several hours of tho tragedy comes from tho tile terra NOVI nova which arrived at new zealand Zo aland on mon alon jay with mith the remainder of tho the III labod expedition under tho the command bof lieutenant avans tae the sour tour men nho perished ditl captain scott were dr E A wilson ilief of scientific staff zoologist and artist lieutenant 11 U B bowers of tio hoyal indian marine in r charge of tho the captain R p 0 G ostop of tho the dragoons 1 in 9 barge hargo of tho the doge dogs and ponies edgar evane evans petty officer in charge of the sledges and ana equipment this party of intrepid explorers heading the tile british antarctic tion which set forth with such bright hopes of reaching the tile south polo pole and which was w as regarded as one of the bast CAPT ROBERT F SCOTT 4 t intrepid british explorer who head rd an expedition in earch search of the pole equipped that en ever or set out upon a similar mission rea chri the south polo pole january 18 1912 ana anc then perished miserably in a driving bliz E zard erd e rd cl c the journey back altor attaining tho the pole they faced about lor for tho the return to civilization for two to months thea tho struggled to get back to one ton depot which the had established miles north of the ultimate south but ono by one they died on the way may seaman evans eans died from conous alor of the brain on fob feb auary 17 captain cate alej filed from exposure expos exposi jre re on march 17 captain scott lieutenant bowers and dr allson died from exposure and st starvation during a 1 blizzard about march larch 20 29 the warm aran N sm sympathy Pathy of tho the whole i world orld u will 1 I gc out ut t to mrs scott in her teral ble berea bereavement ement she left england last month for now zealand and the heartbreaking no now ma a of the calamity avants aw alts her there sho she sailed from san Pran francisco cisco february 5 tho the nowa nes of scotts death only reached his relatives through the newspapers paPers lady ellison macartney the explorers sl attic was tho the first to loarn learn of his fato fate and she telephoned tho the news dews to mrs scott captain scotts aged mother at henley mrs scott had not lot felt any apprehension fr the fate of her hei son but bore up very wry bra bravely ely tho the dally daily mall says it Is a trag edy as ov arrow oring as franklins end in the arctic more than sixty six ty eara ago tho victory la is walled up la in death 11 1 in the house OL 01 commons the news created a great sensation the fart lord ot 0 the admiralty winston churchill was bombarded with ques avns as u to whether any official infer matlon mation bad had bean received ec elred by the admiralty office mr churchill bad had to had boon heon received explain that no news llos officially the noe of tho the appalling disaster which ilitch befell captain scott and bis bla companions was mas brought to almaru now zealand by a signaled message tho vessel m which from tho the terra terru nova noia had carried the and his expedition tion to tuo the an antarctic and which wh ch lato late last bear ear went ment once again to the south bouth to brins bring him and his ills compan ions tons back captain scotts party reached tho the exact point where roald amundsen planted tho the No norwegian hag fing at tho the south pole they found there the hut constructed and left I 1 by party these facts were mere recorded in tho the documents found on the bodies of the explorers ahen ft hen they mere ft recovered G P F watt matt business manager of tho allf ll cited expedition after ine ric tho news said it was scotts original intention to take sixteen men mith ath him in tho the main traveling party and after reaching a certain distance four of these wore acre to return and tho the rest mere ft ere to continue at another point four more wore acre to return and tho tile rost rest coi dinue at another pont point four were mere to return leaving four to make the final 1 m march 1 it Is evidently this final four who mho have been lost those who did not make the final journey mere ft ere to await tho the return of scott and tho the gallant galla nt four with him while wo me are not yet in possession of the details of how scott and his party part y mot met death yet wo mo know they will mill montan of splendid did heroism on ort the part of tho the survivors scotts diary tells story A number of details of the d chaster aster in which captain beott prid sow four of his men nien perished in the antarctic aro are brought in special dispatches to the central news service captain oates evidently set out from the tent in which tho the four men had bad all but sue suc to sta starvation nation and exhaustion to brave death alone in tho the blizzard which had overwhelmed them after a bravo brane struggle for weeks meeks with h s hands forst bitten oates do dared to his comrades that he was mas going to set out in tho the storm ana know when ihen he would mould come back lie ile ift I ft the tent and ho he was never seen again he ile eil evidently dently knew ho he was mas setting out to meet his death alone the others later tried to push on but were forced nto into camp again on march 21 after nine davs struggle in the blizzard food and fuel were both exhausted probably realizing that his party was doomed captain scott entered in his diary four davs das later on march 25 a message to the public in this he declared that the disaster was mas not duo due to faulty organization but to misfortune he ile said nobody in the world could expect to successfully success tully encounter such temperatures and storms as they had met on tho the barrier which m aich so retarded their progress when they ar rived ried within eleven miles of one ton depot they only had fuel for one ono hot me meal al and 2nd food for two days the doomed explorer wrote apologetically getic ally of his rouga notes he lie said these thew and tho the bodies must tell the tale ho ile appealed to his ills countrymen for the care of those dependent upon the perishing explorers news of the death of captain scott seat and his ills men w ho succeeded by a final dash in reaching the south pole only to find proof that roald amundsen had forestalled them came in a brief dispatch from j E IL G R ekaas of the roval roal nw davs who 0 o was second in con command imand when ihen the expedition started and who ho now signs as commander tho message was mas signaled from th the steamer terra nova noia re returning turning from tho tile anarchic an arctic regions while vh 10 I 1 passing kamaru new zealand other explorers explore rs shocked by news new york read admiral robert E U peary N S N retired who recell received ed a gold medal and the tile thanks of con gross gress as tj the 0 first man to attain the north pole said m when hen ho he received the news of the death of captain scott and his companions the news nes comes to me as a ter shock mrs scott and tho the wives and re relatives lather of the bravo brave men who uha perished v with ith captain scott and the whole british nation have my deepest sincerest and most heartfelt sympathy and condolence madison wb captain raold amundsen received recoiled the news at la broso the captain said ho he was as too dazed to speak but finally said sald it is hard bard to believe belleve this there must be some horrible mistake I 1 it seeing incredible that suc such h a large party should perish in this w A ay new york 1 I cannot believe it la is true if it Is inconceivable th that at an ex tion on as well uell equipped as captain scott scotts s was nas could have perished be fore a blizzard urd 1 lieutenant sir ernest shackleton the british explorer and one time association of captain coptain scott 5 so expressed himself W when ben ahon shown the dispatch fro from m now zealand telling of the fate of ca captain pal t a SOO scott tt and party |