Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1913-02-12
oUTH CAROLINA WEDNESDAY,. FEBRUARY IT, 1913
DIsAsTlR TO SCOTT PARTY.
Number Of antarctic Explorers Are
Known to BE Dead.

OamarL, New Zealand, Feb. To-
Robert f. Scott and his party were
overwhelmed by blizzard on their
return jou rney from the South Pole,
and the eItire party perished. They
reached tie South Pole on the 18th
OF January, 1912.
The ne VS. Of the appalling disas-
ter which befell Capt. Scott and his
companions was brought to this port
by signal.ed message from the
Terra Nova, he vessel which had
| carried the eXp,Hrer and his eXpedi
tion to the Antarctic, and which lee
last year went once .."ain tC the
south to bring him and his compan-
ions back.
The total number Of deaths in
volved in the calamity is not exactly
known, but it is believed that sixty
six scientists and sailors lost their
lives.
The Terra Nova is en- route to Lyt-
Teton, where she expected to arrive
| Thursday
Capt. Scott's party reached the ex-
act point where Roald 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 bodies Of the
dead explorers when they were re-
covered.
1t is believed here that the disas-
ter did not involve all of the Scott
party of siXty-siX, but probably only
Scott himself and four others select
ed by him for the final dash to the
Pole. These are supposed to be Dr.. !.
E. A. Wilson, chief Of the scientific
staff; Capt. l.. e. G. Coates, of the
Inniskilling Dragons; Lieut. H. R..
Bowers, of the Royal Indian marine,
the commissary officer and petty Off
Ger e. Evans, of the British Royal
Navy.
Capt. Scott's main travelling party
was to consist of sixteen men be-
sides himself, while groups Of four
men each were to return at different
stages of the journey, leaving Scott
and four others to complete the final
dash to the pole. This would indi-
cate that some Of the members OF the
party who had been left at the vari-
Gus bases were not Included among &
] the Inns of ne a fer and that
I 1t was they who communicated to the
world the fate OF the expedition.
The Terra Nova sailed on June / !,
1910, for New Zealand and the South
Pole. 1t was joined by Capt. Robert
f. Scott few days later at Cardiff.
| The expedition consisted of twenty
eight officers and scientists in addi-
tion to a crew of twenty-three picked
men from the British Royal Navy.
! Reports were current at the time
the Terra Nova sailed for the Antarc-
tic, on December Ia, 1912, to bring
back the Scott party, that some of the
members of the relief expedition had
expressed grave doubts as to whether
Capt. Scott and his fellow explorers
would ever return. No reason was
given for these doubts, but they
were freely expressed.
Mrs. Scott left London five weeks
ago for New Zealand to meet her
husband there
The last direct word received from
Capt. Scott himself was brought by
the commander of the Terra Nova
from the southern ice regions, when
she returned to Akaroa, New Zea-
land, on March 81, last year. The
brief message was in Capt. Scott's
own handwriting, and said:
Il am remaining in the Antarctic
for another winter in order to con-
tinue and complete my work"
Capt. Scott had shortly before sent
back report to his base at McMurdo
Sound, showing that on January 3,
1912, he had reached a point $50
miles from the Pole and was advanc-
ing toward his destination.
| d.