Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1913-02-14


which befell Captain Scott and his
companions was brought to Aamaru,
New Zealand. by a signaled message
from the Terra Nova, the vessel which
had carried the explorer and his ex-
petition to the Antarctic, and which
late last year went once again to the
south to bring him and his compan-
ions back.
Captain Sc1st's party reached the
exact point where ROAD 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 the bodies of the
explorers when they were recovered.
G. F. Wyatt, business manager OF
the Inflated expedition, after receiv-
ing the news, said:
1T was SCOTS original intention to
take sixteen men with him in the
main travelling party, and after reach
ing a certain distance, four of these
were to return and the rest were to
continue. At another point four more
were to return and the rest continue
At another point four were to return,
leaving four with Scott to make the
final march.
| 1T Is evidently this final four who
have been lost. Those who did no.,
make the final journey we're to awatt
| the return of Scott and the gallant
four with him.
while we are not yet in possession
CT the details OF how Scott and his
party met death, yet we know they
will contain stories of splendid hero
ism on the part of the survivors,
scott's Diary Tells story.
A number Of details Of the disaster
in wh4ch Captain Scott and four of his
men persisted in the Antarctic are
brought in special dispatches to the
Central News service. Captain Oates
evidently set out from the tent in
which the four men had all but sue
cumIbed to starvation and exhaustion
to brave death alone in the blizzard
which had overwhelmed them.
After a brave struggle for weeks,
with his hands forst4bitten, Oates de-
clared to his comrades that he was
going to set out in the storm ana
didn't know when he would come
back He left the tent and he was
never seen again. He evidently knew
he was setting out to meet his death
alone.
The others later tried to push on,
but were forced into camp again on
March q, after nine days struggle in
the blizzard Food and fuel were both
exhausted.
Probably realizing that his party
was doomed, Captain Scott entered in
his diary four days later-on March
It's, a message to the public" In this
he declared that the disaster was not
due to faulty organization, but TO mis-.
fortune. He said nobody in the world
could expect to successfully encounter
such temperatures and storms as they
had met on the barrier, which so re-
tarded their progress When they ar
rived within eleven miles OF One Ton
depot they only had fuel for one hot
meal and food for two days.
The doomed explorer wrote apollo
getically of his rough notes" He said
these and the bodies must tell the
tale He appealed to his countrymen
for the care of those dependent upon
the perishing explorers.
News of the death of Captain Scott
and his men, who succeeded by tina
dash in reaching the South pole, only
to find proof that Road Amundser
had forestalled them, came in a briel
dispatch from Lieut.. 3. R. G. r. Evans
of the royal navy, who was second in
command when the expedition started
t and who now signs as Commander.
7 The message was signaled from The
3 steamer Terra Nova, returning from
: the anarctic regions, while passing
I 0amaru, New Zealand
+ Other Explorers Shocked by News.
i New York-Read Admiral Robert E
, Peary, N. s. N, retired, who received
! gold medal and the thanks of con
4 gress as the first man to attain tn,
north pole, said when he received tn,
news OIL Tile uedIu VI Sdpldln 5GOL
r and his companions:
: THE news comes to me as ter
! rible shock. Mrs, Scott and the wiye
: and relatives of the brave men Wit
1 persisted with Captain Scott, and tn,
whole British nation have my deepest
Y sincerest and most heartfelt sympatn.
g and coincidence"
, Madison, Wis. = Captain Raoy
D Amundsen received the news at Il
d Crosse. The captain said he was to,
a dazed to speak. but finally said:
1T is hard to believe this. Their
a must be some horrible mistake.
. seems incredible that such larg
party should perish in this way"
: New York; cannot believe 1t
8 true. 1t is ineonceiyable that an el
] petition as well equipped as Capital
SCOTS was could have persisted be
fore a blizzard" Lieutenant Sir Err
est Ehackleton, the British explore
$ and one time association of Capital
t Scott, so expressed himself whe
n shown the dispatch from New Zealan
+ telling of the fate of Captain Scott an
: party.
Mrs. Scott at Sea.
San Francisco.-Repeated efforts o