American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1913-02-13

explain that no news had been re-
ceived officially.
The news of the appalling disaster
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 yea went once again to the
south to bring him and his compan-
ions back.
Captain SCOTS party reached the
exact point where Roald 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 h 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
we're 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 not
make the final journey were to await
the return of Scott and the gallant
four with him.
while We are not yet in possession
OF 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 which 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 foul men had all but sue
cumbed to starvation and exhaustion
to brave death alone in the blizzard
which had overwhelmed them.
After a brave struggle for weeks,
with his hands forst-bitten, 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 we're forced into camp again on
March 81, 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
%, 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 n 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 car of those dependent upon
the perishing explorers.
News of the death of Captain Scott
and his men, who succeeded by a final
dash in reaching the South pole, only
to find proof that Roald Amundsen
had forestalled them, came in a brief
dispatch from Lieut.. E. R. G. R. Evans
of the royal navy, who vas second in
command when the expedition started
and who now signs as Commander"
The message was signaled from the
steamer Terra Nova, returning from
the anarctic regions, while passing
Oamaru, New Zealand.
Other Explorers Shocked by News.
New York.-Read Admiral Robert E.
Peary, N. S. N, retired, who received
a gold medal and the thanks of con
gress as the first man to attain the
north pole, said when he received the
news of the death of Captain Scott
and his companions:
THE news comes to me as a ter
rible shock. Mrs. Scott and the wives
and relatives of the brave men who
persisted with Captain Scott. and the
whole British nation have my deepest.
sincerest and most heartfelt sympathy
and coincidence"
Madison, Wis. - Captain Raold
Amundsen received the new at La
Crosse. The captain said he was too
dazed to speak, but finally said:
1T is hard to believe this. There
must be some horrible mistake. 1t
seems incredible that such a large
party should perish in this way"
w. - l.