The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1913-02-14
SOUTH POLE
BUT CAPT. BOB SCOTT AND FOUR
COMRADES LOSE THEIR
LIVES.
THEY were ON THEIR RETURN TRIP
Captain Amundsen, December II,
1911-Scott Leaves Letters
Telling of Expedition.

London.-News of the polar tragedy
which cost the lives of Captain Rob-
ert F. Scott and four of his brave COM
panions CDR E. A. Wilson, Lieutenant
H. R. Bowers, Captain l.. F. G. Gates
and Petty O41lcer E. Evans) after they
had succeeded by a final dash in reach
ing the south pole, only to find proofs
that Roald Amundson had forestalled
them, came in a brief message from
Lieutenant G. R. Evans of the Royal
Navy, who was second in command
when the expedition started and who
now signs as commander"
The message was signalled from the
steamer Terra Nova, returning from
the antartic regions, while passing
Oamaru, New Zealand.
The staggering effect of the news on
the public mind is all the greater, as it
was believed that modern science and
recent experience had completely di-
vested polar exploration of it's former
terrors.
Further Information.
Further information reaching the
Royal Geographical society says that
the rescue party, which left Cape Ev-
ans late in October, reached One Ton
depot and found the provisions in good
order. (.
The party proceeded along the
southern route and came upon SCOTS
tent on November IL. Within lay the
bodies of Scott, Wilson and Bowers.
Story of Trip.
Christ Church, New Zealand.-Cap
tain Robert F. Scott's antarctic ship
the Terra Nova, on January IS, this
year, arrived at Cape Evans, the base
on McMurdo sound, where it was tt
meet the explorers on their return
from the expedition in search of thu
south pole and bring them back if the!
were ready. 1t was learned from thu
shore party found at this base tina
Captain Scott and the four men will
: him had reached the pole, but all ha'
persisted on the return journey.
, Captain Scott, DR.. Edward A. Wi
son, chief of the scientific staff, an
. Lieutenant n. R. Bowers had mad
. their way back to within 155 miles G
= Cape Evans when they were caught
a blizzard and where overcome abou
March 20. They were then within !
# miles of One Ton depot, where the
It would have found shelter and supplies
g. Previously Petty Officer Edgar n
% Evans and Captain l.. E. G. Oates {
Is the Innlskillen dragons, who had bee
| IT,, oh Of he ho
le succumbed. Evans was the first
r give way, dying from conclusion of tt
brain due to fall on February l
Oates died from exposure on March l
I'd Records Recovered.
III The records of Captain Scott we,
ie recovered by a relief expedition. The
showed that he and his party hi
IN reached the south pole on January
Sc 1912, there they found the tent al
he records left by Captain Road Amun
sen when he quit the pole on Decel
ne Der II, 1911.
ne Six other men of the Scott eXpet
M ton who had been through a perilo
I'll experience were found to be safe al
,r we'll. They composed Lieutenant
It's L. A. CampbelPs expedition, which hi
"a been sent to make geological inves
cations to the east of Cape Evans.
The Terra Nova had been unable
INV take the men off the year before
~ account of ice and they were left
NC spend another winter in the antarct
~ iu In this party were Dr. Levig, Priestle
AZ Abbott, Browning and Dickerson.