The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-02-11
HONORS HEAPEO ON
LATE CAPTAIN SCOTT
Whole Civilized World, Pays
Tribute to This English
Hero of Peace.
TRAGIC FACTS TOLD
Concerning Death of Explor-
ers BY Wireless From
the Rescue Vessel.
TRAGIC FACTS TOLD
(Nationa1 News Associatfon)


LONDON, Feb. 11.-By II o'clock
all the honors that could befall an il
lustrious hero of peace were heaped
by the whole world today upon the
name Of Captain Robert F. Scott, who
with four companions. died martyrs of
science within the amarillo circle after
having implanted the Union Jack upon
the South Pole.
Expressions of regret poured in up
on the Royal Geographical society
from every country in the world while
messages of sympathy for the family
of the noted explorer were telegraphed
from the highest circles of state and
scientific ranks.
As the exploration ship Terra Nova
which brought the news of the trag-
edy to civilization, crept today up the
New Zealand coast to where she will
dock Thursday wireless messages
from the survivors Of the Scott expe-
dition on board added details to the
tragic stories of victory which was
swallowed up SO soon afterward in
death.
r7S" buOy WSI OCatH
Captain Scott, DR.. Edward A. Wilson
and Lieutenant H. r. Bowers died
within eleven miles Of the depot of
One Ton camp, 1856 miles north of the
South pole, and their bodies lay in
their tent nearly eight months before
they were found by a rescuing party.
An members of the party did not
die Of starvation. Edgar Evans and
Captain L. II. c. Oates, who were the
first to 60, were victims of other agen-
Giles. Evans slipped upon the ice and
succumbed to conclusion Of the brain
on February II last. One month later
Captain Oates, weak from scurvy,
frozen feet, frozen hands and tester,
staggered from the camp one night,
saying that "te might not return for
some time" That was on March II,
last. He was never again seen and
hts body was not found.
Tragic facts were recorded in the
death diary of Captain Scott, who
hravely recorded each days doings
while facing death. Never more he
roic words penned than those scrib-
bled in the presence Of death in the
supreme solitudes Of the frozen south.
The exact date of the death of Cap
tain Scott, Dr. Wilson and Lieutenant
Bowers is not known, but it is presum-
ed that it occurred late in March of
1919.
Buried Where They Fell.
Surgeon e. A. Atkinson of the Royal
navy. headed the relief party which
found the dead bodies and it was he
who pronounced the funeral services
over the bodies in the ice stretches
where the tragedy was revealed.
The bodies of the three men were
found huddled close together. the nat
ural cold had acted as preventative.
The face of each man was calm and
peaceful.
One pathetic feature of the affair,
which was noted today. was that Mrs.
Scott does not know of her husbands
death and may not learn of it until
the steamer Aorgani, upon which she
sailed from San Francisco, February
Is, touches New Zealand.
P4eced together the frasmentary
facts surrounding the great south pole
tragedy are thssel
After reaching the south pole on
Jan. 10, 1919, Capt. Scott and his four
companions turned back and headed
for Cape Evans, the base of supplies
and operations on Murdo Sound. The
trip was fraught with disaster. The
first death was that of Evans who died
from conclusion of the brain at the
foot Of Beardhome Glacier. The
weather was abnormaNy cold and the
dogs and ponies suffered from frost,
bite while the progress was so show
that the food and fuel began to run
low before the party had travelled 100
miles from the pole.
Capt. Oates Fell Sick.
Capt. Oates fell sick from exposure
and frostbite and contracted both fe-
yer and scurvy. During a terrible big
eard on the night of March 16 he wan.
dered from the samp. His companions
knew that Oates was playing the part
of brave man. They knew that
Oates walked forth in the raging bliz.
yard because he did not want to give
his companions the pain of seeing him
die. His epitaph was written in SCOTS
diary In these words:
ut was the act of a brave man and
an English gentleman"
On March 15 a blizzard began which
lasted ten days and 1t was during this
terrible antarctic gale that Scott and
his companions crossed the threshold
Capt. Scott. in his own words, at.
tributed the tragedy not to faulty or.
ganization but to natural risks and
misfortunes which had to be consid-
cred in the dangerous enterprise.
In His Interest.