The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1913-02-13

Five Days After Am9ncsea's Dis
eosery and Started on Return Jour.
nsy 10 Base o, supplies When They
Los, Their Way and frose TO Death
,--Espeei,lon Was Well Equipped
London. Feb. II Captain Robert
n Scott. the famous British Ant
arctic explorer. and four members Of
his south Pole expedition persisted In
The Antarctic after reaching the South
Pole.
News OF the tragedy was received
here yesterday afternoon after the ex.
ploration ship Terra Nova. which had
gone TO McMurdo sound TO bring the
explorers back 10 civilization. had
reported the death by wireless rs she
was passing Cape Saunders. New Yea
land
The Scott party had reached the
South Pole on Jan IS, 1912. and
we're on their way back TO their base
OF supplies when they were oyeFtaken
By blizzard and lost their way All
froze TO death
The victims. in addition 10 Captain
Scott. were DR.. Wilson. one Of the
scientific stan; Captain Oates Of the
lnniskiIlins Dragons, who was in
charge Of The dogs and ponies. Lieu
tenant Bowers Of the Royal Indian
Marines. and Lieutenant n. u.
Evans. In charge Of the equipment.
News OF the death OF Scott and his |
rarity created a tremendous sensation |
here II was heard with genuine re-
greet by scientific and naval circles,
~ SCOTS exploration achievements in |
the Antarctic have been highly i'm
portant He was an officer In the |
royal navy.
Scott reached the South Pole thirty
five days after Captain Amundsen. its
discoverer. Amnndsen reached the
point farthest south on Dec IA, 1911,
and remained there three days,
In his accounts he says the weather
on the return trip from the pole to
his base was excellent. He saw no
trace OF the Scott party. There are
still Japanese and German expedI-
tions IN the Antarctic looking for the
pole
Details OF the tragedy have not yet
become known. but, according TO pre-
yiously announced plans SCOTS main
travelling party was to consist Of six
teen men besides himself or these.
squads OF four men were TO return at
different stages Of the journey. leav-
ing Scott and four others to make the
final dash for the pole
This tended to confirm the dis
patches. which said that FIVE men had
persisted II was indicated by the
manner in which the news was made
public that the survivors had recov-
cred the bodies OF the dead and that
the full story of the disaster so far
as II could be traced from external
evidences was known TO the living
members OF the expedition.
Further dispatches received late
Yesterday afternoon from Wellington.
NJ o., confirmed the earlier report
that Scott and his men we're dead.
Captain SCOTS party reached the
exact point where 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
dead explorers when they were re-
covered
The Scott party sailed from London
IN the Terra Nova on June /, 1910,
but Scott did not join the expedition
until It reached New Zealand.
Al the time the expedition left,
Scott and his second In command.
Lieutenant Evans. claimed to have the
best equipped expedition which ever
set out for the South Pole. Their
supplies included number Of motor
;ledges
Nearly all the members of the
party. except the biologists. were
of the British navy. The
-oyal navy loaned" DR.. Levick to
lct as the medical officer for the Scott
expedition. Scott was $50 miles from
he South Pole when the Terra Nova
eft McMurdo sound
Captain Scott was As years old ana
lad served In the British navy with
His previous achieve
nents In the Antarctic earned him
many medals. In 1902 he led an ex-
iedition into the Ross sea and ex-
,lored the great Antarctic ice barrier
or 400 miles.
Mrs. Scott, now tragically the
widow OF the British Antarctic ex-
ilorer. sailed on board the steamer
.orangl from San Francisco Feb.
or New Zealand. expecting TO meet
Ter husband there. The steamers
irst port Of call is Papeete, Tahiti. /
Is there Is no cable to that point.
nd as the ship will not touch at any I
able point until she reaches the Anti /
,odes. Il is improbable that Mrs.
Icoit viii learn OF her husbands
eath nntil she reaches New Zealand.
Just before her departure. Mrs.
,cott said In an interview that she
ad not heard from the captain In
ighteen months but was confident
= would reach New Zealand safely.
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