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Show ",:0ctt ami Falar Party Perish 1 LOST IN STORM Antarctic Explorers Are Overwhelmed on Return Re-turn From Pole j L0H00M IN GLOOM Records and Bodies Recovered Re-covered Mrs. Scott Unaware of Disaster London, Feb 10. News reached the I world toda that Captain Robert F. I Scott, the Antarctii explorer, and an unknown number of his companions perished in the Antarctic while on their return journey from the south pole. They reached their goal on January 18, lyiL'. about a month after Captain Cap-tain Raold Amundsen, the Norwegian, bad planted the flag of his country there They then returned back toward to-ward the bases they formed on their outward Journe) bul were overtaken, overwhelmed and destroed by .. bbz-zard bbz-zard The news of the death of the explorers ex-plorers was brought to civilization today by the captain of the Terra Nova the essel which bad taken ! Scott s expedition to the south, and which had gone again to bring tlK-m bach after the accomplishment ot their j task Records and Bodies Found A searching expedition reco red the records and bodies of their party. )nl a few brief bulletins were s m today from the New Zealand port of Oamaru by the captain, of the Terra Nova, who related simply the fate of the party and then proceeded with his vessel for the port of Littleton, where he should arrive Thursday he disaster came as an utter surprise sur-prise to London and cast a gloom over the community which has been unequaled since the death ot King Edw ard. It is believed here that the disas-lei disas-lei did not involve all of the Scot' I party of but probably only Sioti himself and the four others Belected by him for the final dash to t lie pole T hese are supposed to be Dr E, V Wilson, chief of the scientific staff: ( laptain I E G bates of the Innes killing dragoons; Lieut H Bowers of the Royal Indian marine, the commissariat com-missariat officer, and Petty Offlcei E E Evans of the British roal oavj London. Feb 10 The death of .p tain Robert F Scott and the whole ot lus parts who took part In the south polar expedition is reported in a news ' agency dispatch received here today from Ni-w Zealand The Terra Nova sailed on June 10. 1910. for New Zealand and the south pole it was joined by Captain Robert Rob-ert F Scott a few days later at Cardiff Car-diff The expedition consisted of 2S of-I of-I fleers and scientists In addition to a crew of 23 picked men from the roy-i roy-i ai navj Reports were current at the time the Terra Nova sailed for the Aniarc-! Aniarc-! tic on November 14, 1912, to bring (back the Scott party that some of the members of the relief expedition ! had expressed grave doubts as to ' whether I aptain Scoti and bis fei'ow explorers would ever return No reason rea-son was given for these doubts, hut they were freely circulated Mrs. Scott Starts to Meet Husband. Mrs Scott left London five week! ago for New Zealand to nn el her husband there The last direct word received from Captain Scott himself was brought by the c ommander of 'be Tcira N'oa from the southern ice regions when she returned to AJtaroa, ! N. Z . on March 31 of last year. The hrlef message was in Captain Scoa'c own handwriting and said: I am remaining In the Antarctic lor another winter to continue and complete mv work." Captain Scott had shortlj before sent back a report to his base at McMurdo sound, showing thai n January 3, 1012 he bad reached S point 150 miles from the pole and was advancing toward his destination. destina-tion. Reached Pole January 18. The dispatch from Oartnarn, Z ibis morning shows thai in l". days he i covered the remaining 150 miles, having hav-ing traveled al the rate of L0 miles a day. It w.,s on his return that he and j his party were overwhelmed by one I of the terrific blizzards so prevalent in the Antarctic region. One Month Behind Amundsen. The date of Captain Sr-ott's atta i : iai-ni of the south pole, January 18. Ial2, shows thai he reached the gOnl of his expedition almost exactly one month alter Captain Raold Ainund-Sen, Ainund-Sen, Ihe Norwegian explorer Cap lain Amundsen's report to King H.a-l.on H.a-l.on of Norway read 'Pole attained December 14 -IT, 1911. All well 1 The report of Captain ScoU. was destined not to be received by 'hd waiting world until after his drain No details had come to hand this: morning as to how the records of Cap tain Scot) wire found, but that ho airied at the pole on that date mentioned men-tioned was definitely known Members of Expedition The principal members of the expedition ex-pedition besides Captain Scon were Lieut. (, R Evans R N., second In command. Dr E. A Wilson, chief of the scientific staff zoologist and iriist; Lieut V, L A Campbell of the scientific staff, zoologist and artist art-ist . I ileul V L A Campbell. R N leader of the eastern party: Lieut II L L. Pennell, R N, magnetic and meteorological work. Lieut II E De R Renniph R. N . of the western party. Lieut. 11. R Rowers, Royal In dian marine, engineer; Lieut EC a Riley. R N. surueon, F. M Levijk, R N physician and zoologist; E L Atkinson, R. In , surgeon, bacteriologist, bacteriolo-gist, parasitologist; F R. Drake. R. N.. secretary; C. H Meares In charge of ionics and dogs for the western party. par-ty. ( aptain L E. C, Oates. Innes-kilhng Innes-kilhng dragoons, in charge of poipes and dogs: Dr. C C Simpson physicist physi-cist of the western part) : T Griffith Grif-fith Taylor, zooiogist: E W Nelson, biologist of the western party; D G. Lilhe. biologist. Cherr Garrard Gar-rard zoologist of the western pir-ty; pir-ty; H G Ponter. photographer of the western party; H G. Day, motor en gineer of the western party; W G Thompson, geologist of the western 1 party, C S Wright; chemist of the 1 western party; Boatswain T Feather Feath-er in charge Of sledging outfit; Boatswain A. Chetham of the Terrs Nova, L Williams, engineer ol the Terra Nova. W Lashlcy. assistant engineer, western party, Chief Steward Stew-ard V Archer of the Terra Nova Captain Scott's main traveling party par-ty was to consist of 16 men besides himself, while groups of four men eac h were to return at different stages of the journey, leaving Scott and four others to complete the final dash 'o the pole This would tndltale that souk of Ihe members of the party who had been left at the various base3 were not included among the victims of the disaster and that it was they who communicated lo the world the fate of the expedition. Wife Unaware of Death. Mrs. Scott, now tragically the widow wid-ow of the British Antarctic explorer, though she is yet probably unaware of his fate sailed fiom San Francisco February j for New Zealand, expecting expect-ing to meet her husband there Just before her departure she said that she had not heard from him In 18 months but was confident he would reach New Zealand safely Mrs Scott sailed on the Aorgan.. whose first port of call is Papett Tahiti As there is no cable to that point and as the ship will not touch at any cable point until she reaches Ihe Antipodes. It Is improbable thut Mrs Scott will learn of her husband's death until she reaches New Zealand although efforts are being made to reach the Aorganl by wireless Expedition Well Equipped The exoeciition under Captain Scott was th- best equipped that had ever been gathered together for sucn an adventure It sailed from Port Chalmers, Chal-mers, near Christ Church. N Z . on November 29 IMO The Terra Nova made direct south Into the Ross SOS Early In January. 1911 she forced hr Wa into McMurdo sound, where win ter quarters wore established on Capt Evans The members of the expedition expedi-tion bad a very arduous task in put ting their stores on shore and the I work took a week. However. the were able to make themselves very comfortable- there in houses, which they carried with them Id "knockdown" "knock-down" form. The) at once began their scientific observations. Provisions for a three-years' stay in the ice regions had been taken on the terra NOVS and these had been j placed on sho.e 'aptain Scott bad! with him 20 Siberian ponies. 30 dogs and two motor sleds The ponies, dogs and motor sleds were to be used alternately for trans port across the 1.5 mile- between th landing place and the pole. It was arranged to cover ten miles I dailv and it is apparent thai this j s, hen'.- was carried out up to the me, ment they reached the pole. |