The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-02-14
\ KING SHEDS TEARS
At DEATH Of HERO

orchestral choir opened the memorial
services and while the band of the
Cold Stream Guards softly played the
dead march from Saul, solemn pray.
ers were offered for the rspose of the |
souls Of the dead heroes. The dean
mentioned each Of the five men by (
name. beginning with Captain Scott.
BY the time the first song was end
ed, there was not dry eye in the
whole cathedral and the king, un-
abashed, allowed the tears to roll
down his cheeks unchecked The
sobs Of the relatives OF the explorers
punctuated the prayers for the dead
and SO affected the vast audience that
nearly everyone was weeping audibly
by the time the assemblage was ask
ed in conclusion to join in singing:
Jesus, lover of my soul" They tried
to sing. but the medley OF groans,
sobs and shrieks made sad havoc OF
the tune.
The scene was such as has not
been seen in London since the great
memorial service for the victims OF
the Titanic disaster.
simultaneously with the memorial
in st. PauYs, the pupils of every
school throughout Great Britain stood
with bowed heads at their desks,
while their teachers read to them the
story of Captain Scott's dash to the
bottom of the world and his heroic
and pathetic death on the return jour,
ney. The teacher emphasized the fact
| tha. Scott and his mates left no word
{ of complaint. BY such examples, they
said, the Britons' manhood and sturdy
bravery should be perpetuated.
! The crowd today almost overwhelm-
ed st. Paul's. The service was set for
1 noon but by 10:30 more than $4,000
persons were vt the doo-s clamoring
for admission. Double guards of po-
lice kept the crowds back until all Of
those most intimately concerned
could find places in the cathedral
/ and then there was room inside for
Fonly small part Of the crowd.
4 While the services were going on
] within, thousands without the build
ling stood patiently with uncovered
i heads and when the strains of the
4 sacred and solemn music drifted out,
the street crowds, too, wept.
q And from the throng within and
4 without there went up many a silen.
prayer for the widow far out on the
broad Pacific. sailing buoyantly to
i meet her hero-husband, perhaps not
a knowing that his starved body lies
buried in the SHOWS of the antarctic
Further Details.
\ LYTTLETOF,, N. T., Feb 14.-At
: the hour when London was honorine
today the heroes of the south pole
: and memorial service was being
! held at Christchurch, attended by
} Commander Z. G. r. Evans and the
survivors of the Scott expedition
J who came in on the relief ship Terra
i Nova, people here were agape with
!, awe over the tragic details of how
u Captain Scott and his brave com
: rades actually died.
Captain SCOTS body was fount
+ sitting bolt upright against the pol,
!. OF his little tent, his legs on the ic'
i and his head pillowed on his diary
r containing his last message to the
world.
i Wilson and Bowers lay in thei
sleeping bags, dead on the ice floor
DR.. Atkinson, in charge OF the re
e lief party that found Scott's body
/; buried the men in cac',l Of snoy
d and mounted it with white cross o.
which were inscribed the names 0
4 the party.
t After vainly searching for Oates
r body, the relief party erected sec
n cnd snow cacin in his honor. No al
e tempt was made to find the body Q
4 Petty Officer Evans.
q The shortage of fuel, for whic
Captain Scott, in his diary, could nc
II account" is still the mystery of th
d thrilling story of the antarctic, 70
il Commander Evans, while cabin
l. back to England another il
stallment of his volumincus story {
d the polar dash, was still reticient e
d 1.-THE actual death of Scott and hi
IS four men.
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