Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-02-10
SCOTT FOUND
SOUTH POLE
Then DIED
ALL LONDON IS THROWN INTO
GLOOM over DEATH OF The
ENGLISH EXPLORER AND HIS
COMPANIONS.
REACHED EXACT SPOT
TOUCHED BY AMUNDSEN

London. Feb. 10.--NeWs reached
the world today that Captain Rob
ert e. Scott, the antartic explorer
and an unknown number Of his com
panons perished in the antartic
while on their return journey from
the south pole.
They reached their goal on Janu-
ary Is, 1912, about month after Cap
tain Raold Amundsen, the Norwegian
had planted the flag of his country
there. They then turned back iowa I'd
the bases they formed on their out
ward journey, but were overtaken,
overwhelmed and destroyed by blih-
zard.
The news of the death of the OK
plorers was brought to civilization to-
day by the captain of the Terra Nova,
the vessel which had taken Scott's ey.
pedition to The south and which had
some again to fetch them back al'or
the accomplishment OF their task
A searching party recovered the
bodies and records of The party.
Only few brief bulletins were seht
today from the New Zealand port ol
Oamaru by the captain of the Terra
Nova, who stated simply the Fate ot
the party and then proceeded with his
vessel Tor the port of Littleton, hete
lie SHOULD arrive Thursday.
The disast ~ came as an ,t,er SUI
{,~ Ia tt
over the country which has been
unequalled since the death OF King
Edward.
1t is beneved here n a disaster
If &C, but probably o1lly Scott hin"
self and the four Others selected by
him for the final dash to the p,,'s.
These are supposed Il be DR.. f. A
Wilson, chief of the scientific staff.
Captain l.. +. G.. Odtt, of the lnnes
Filling dragons. laos enant II. Bow
ers, of the Royal INrlan Marine, the
Gonnmlssar'at oa'ct End Petty Off
Ger e. f.. Evans, OF the British Roya
navy
Captain SCOTS party reached the
exact point where Roald Amundsen
had planted the Norwegian flag at
the South pole. They found there the
hut constructed and left behind by
party.
These facts were recorded in the
documents found on the bodies of the
explorers when they were recovered.
THE EXPEDITION.
London, Feb. 10---The Terra Nova
sailed on June 10, 1910, for New Zeal
and and the south pole. 1t was Joined
fy Captain Robert F. Scott, a few days
later at Cardiff
The expedition consisted of twenty
eight officers and scientists in addition
to a crew of twenty-three picked men
from the British Royal navy.
Reports were current at the time
Lhe Terra Nova sailed for the Antartic
on December IA, 1912, to bring back
he Scott party, that some of the
members of the relief expedition had
grave doubts as to whether
Captain Scott and his fellow explor-
ars would ever return. No reason was
,iven for these doubts, but they rerG
reely bruited abroad
London, Feb. 10.--The date of Cap !
ain Scott's attainment of the South |
Pole, January 18, 1912, shows that he /
cached the goal of his expedition at /
Utmost exactly one month after Cap I
ain Roald Amundsen, the Norwegian /
explorer. Captain Amundsen's re-
,ort to King Haaken of Norway read: /
"Pole attained 14th-17th, Dec. 1911.
III WE'LL
The report of Captain Scott was
destined not to be received by the
Waiting world until after his death.
70 details had come to hand this
morning as to how the records of