Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-02-11
CAPT. SCOTT PARTY
LOST AT SOUTH POLE
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naming in the antarctic for another
winter to continue and complete my
work."
Captain Scott had shortly before
sent back a report to his base at Nc
Murdo sound showing that on January
8, 1912, he had reached point $50
miles from the pole and was advancing
toward his destination.
The dispatch from Oamaru, N. T.,
this morning shows that in fifteen days
he covered the remaining $50 miles,
having travelled of the rate of ten
miles day.
It was on his return that he and
his party were overwhelmed by one
of the terrific billiards. SO prevalent
in the antarctic region.
| Reaches Pole After Amundsen.. i.
The date of Captain SCOTS attain
ment of the south pole January 49,,
1912, shows that he reached the goal
Of his expedition almost exactly one
month after Captain Roald Amundsen,
the Norwegian explorer. Captain
lAmundson's report to King Haakon
read:
"Pole attained 14.17th December,
1911. All well".
The report of Captain Scott was
destined not to be received by the
waiting world until after his death. No
details had come to hand this morn
ing as to how the records Of Captain
Scott were found, but that he arrived
at the pole on the date mentioned was
definitely known.
| Personnel Of tho Party.
The principal members OF the expe-
dition besides Captain Scott we're:
Lieut.. R. r. Evans, r. NJ, second in
command; DR.. E. A. Wilson, chief Of
the scientific staff, zoologist and
artist; Lieut.. v. L. A. Campbell, R. N.
leader Of the eastern part; Lieut.. H.
meteorological works; Lieut.. H. E.
Dep Rennick, R. N, of the western
party; Lieut.. H. r. Bowers, royal
Indian marine. engineer; Lieut.. r. W.
Riley, R. NJ, surgeon; G. M. Lev1ck, Il.
NJ, physician and zoologist; r. l..
Atkinson, r. NJ, surgeon, bacteriolo-
gist, parasitologist; F. r. H. Drake, f.
N, secretary; c. H. Meares, In charge
OF ponies and dogs for the western
party; Captain L. E. G. Oates, 1nnes-
killing dragons, in charge Of ponies
and dogs; DR.. D. G. Simpson, physicist
Of the western party; T. Griffith Tay-
lor, geologist; E. w. Nelson, biologist
of the western party; D. c. Lille, BIZ
ologist.
A. Cherry Garrard, zoologist of the
western party; H. G. Pointing, pnoto-
grapher of the Western party; B. c.
Day. motor engineer of the western
party; w. G. Thompson, geologist of
the western party; C. S. Wright, chem
list of the western party; Boatswain
T. Feather, in charge Of sleding out
fits; Boatswain A. Chatham of Terra
Nova; w. Williams, engineer Of the
Terra Nova; w. Lashley, assistant
engineer western party; Chief
Steward w. Archer Of the Terra
Nova.
Some Thought Alive.
Captain SCOTS main travelling party |
was to consist of sixteen men besides
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 indicate that
some Of the members of the party who
had been left at various bases we're
not included among the victims of the
disaster and that it was they who
to the world the fate Of
the expedition.
The expedition under Captain Scott
was the best equipped that had ever
been gathered together for such an ad-
venture. It sailed from Port Chalmers,
near Christ Church, New Zealand, on
20, 1910. The Terra Nova
made direct south into Ross sea. Early
in January, 1911, she forced her way
into McMurdo sound, where winter
quarters were established on Cape
Evans.
Carried Their House.
The members of the expedition had
a very arduous task in putting their
stores on shore and the work took
week. However, they were able to
make themselves very comfortable
there in houses which they had car
ried with them in "knockdown" form.
They at once began their scientific OBJ
servatiOns.
Provisions for a three years stay IN
the ice regions had been taken on
board the Terra Nova and these were
placed on shore. Captain Scott had
with him twenty Siberian ponies, fifty
dogs and two motor sleds.
Inc ponies, uOSS anu uloLoI olcuo
were to be used alternately for trans
port acros sthe 1900 miles between
the landing place and the pole.
It was arranged to cover ten miles
daily and it is apparent that this
scheme was carried out up to the
moment they reached the pole.
Mrs. Scott. now tragically the widow
of the British Antartic explorer,
though she is yet probably unaware Of
his fate, sailed from San Francisco
February for New Zealand, expect
ing to meet her husband there. Just
before her departure she said that she
had not heard from him in eighteen
months. but was confident he would
reach New Zealand safely.
Mrs. Scott sailed on the Aorangi,
whose first port Of call is Papeete,
Tahiti. AS there is no cable to that
point and as the ship will not touch at
any cable point until she reaches the
Antipodes, it is improbable that Mrs.
Scott will learn Of her husbands
death until she reaches New Zealand,