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Show DEATH WAS 1 HORRIBLE Capt. Amundsen Draws Thrilling Picture of j Scott Disaster Chicago, Feb. U A thrilling n!c-Iture n!c-Iture of the probable manner In which Robert F. Scott and four of his com-: com-: panlons met death on the Ice barrier close to the earth's southern extrem-j ity, -was painted verbally bv Captain Roald Amundsen, discoverer of the : south pole, who was In Chicago today 1 "It Is hard to sav juU what hap-i hap-i pened,' said the Norwegian explorer,: "hut we can imagine, perhaps, al-! al-! though it horrible We know of; .course, that it happened about the I j 79th parallel and that they were down I :on the Jbarrler and not ou the pla-1 1 teau. And Just about there our posi-ithe posi-ithe knowledge stops. Exhausted and Starving. "Certalnlv they were exhausted and ! starving It mav be that they had' rome scurvy amonp them who can ' .,y'1 At anv rate, they v ere not in aj fit condition to meet the terrible bliz. j zard when it came 'Not that blizzards are unusual Scott was prepared for blizzards for J he was no amateur One may always' expect hlizzards In that country But. i there they were those poor forlorn ' fellows- straggling alonp without ov-I ov-I e.i their ponies to diaw their sledges for thev had sent back thir last ponies when they had reached a point 15b miles from the pole on the journey southward Drawing Own Sledges. Thev were drawing their own sledges, weakened 'hough they must have been The had nn dogs, and ; that was a mistake, 1 am afraid Al-l Al-l ways before them there stretched 'ibis awful country. Can you see It? Flat ice. stretching tish' across the conntrv in long, glassy, undulations i stretching aa so far and white that the eve cannot bear to follow it. 'nd across the frozen surface I sweeps the wind furiously. The great fla1 expanse offers a terrific sweep for the blast and there is no protection protec-tion except what man is able to build I for himself " Captain Deeply Affected. Captain Amuudsen passed i huiid across his eyes. " And there they died." he said softly. soft-ly. "Of course Evans Petty Officer Evans had died already He fell on the Ice But the others must h:. died within a short time of each orh-er. orh-er. Oate bravely went out into the bllr.iard thai his illness mit-'tit not hinder tbe others That was a great sacrifice, but if did no good. I cannot read that last message nf Captain Scott's without emotion I never met him personal!), but I know be was a brave man. And -o think,' added the captain, in a hushed hush-ed tone, "that while those brave mer were dying in the waste of ice I was lecturing in warm'b and comfort in Australia! ' Captain Amundsen denied that he had suggesied that the men who mi death might have fallen into a crevasse crev-asse "It is ridiculous." he asserted, "to think that five men would fall into a crevasse. " Frof. II .1 Cox. weather forecaster I who had listened to the Norwegian adventurer's narration, broke in. j "Shackleton nearly met the same Fate, vou know "Yes." said Amundsen. "Shackleton hud a hard time getting back He inearlv met death He turned bac; Just In time, tn the very hour, in fact, j to sa e his life " |