The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1913-02-11
CAPT. SCOTT AND
HIS PARTY DEAD
Explorers Perish After Reach.
ing South Pole.
LEFT VALUABLE RECORDS
they Found the Flag and Hut Built
BY Captain Amundsen, Proving Con-
quest of Extremity of Earth.

BY Captain Amundsen, Proving Con-
quest of Extremity of Earth.
London, Feb. 11-Disaster overcome
the British Antarctic expedition head
ed by Captain Robert Falcon Scott, of
the British navy.
Scott and all his companions are
reported to have perished In bliz-
card after attaining the goal for which
he set out-the South Pole.
News of the disaster came from
Oamaru, New Zealand, in the follow
ing dispatch:
Captain Robert F. Scott and his
party were overwhelmed by a bliz
zard on their return journey from the
South Pole. The entire party perish
ed. They reached the South Pole Jan.
18, 1912.
"The news of the appalling disaster
which befell Captain Scott and his
companions was brought to this port
by signalled message from the Terra
Nova, the vessel which had carried
the explorer and his exI edition to the
Antarctic and which late last year
went once again to the south to bring
him and his companions back.
"The total number of deaths involv-
ed in the calamity is not exactly
known, but it is believed that sixty
six scientists and sailors lost their
lives"
No fofv IN
March 20, more than two months after
he left the South Pole. Captain Oates
was the last survivor of the four Off
GERS who perished with the explorer.
The disaster came as an utter sur
prise to London and cast gloom
over the community which has been
unequalled since the death of King
Edward.
It was hoped, although without any
definite news on which to base the
idea, that the disaster did not involve
all of the Scott party of sixty-six, but
probably only Scott himself and the
four others selected by him for the
final dash to the pole. These are sup
posed to be DR.. E. A. Wilson, chief OF
the scientific staff; Captain L. E. G.
Oates, of the Enniskillen Dragons;
Lieutenant H. r. Bowers, OF the Royal
Indian Marine, the commissariat Off
Ger, and petty officer, E. Evans, of
the British royal navy.
The date of Scott's reaching the
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Just one month and one day after the
discovery of the southernmost ex-
tremity of the earth by Captain Roald
Amundsen, the Norwegian. They veri-
fed the discovery Of Amundsen, as is
set forth in this later dispatch from
Oamaru:
Captain Scott's party reached the
exact point where Roald Amundsen
planted the Norwegian flag at the
South Pole.
"They found there the hut con-
structed and left behind by Amund-
sens party.
"These facts were recorded in the
documents found on the bodies of the
explorers when they were recovered"
Reports received from Wellington,
Christ Church and other New Zealand
cities contain meager details OF the
catastrophe, but the Central News is
authority for the statement that Scott
and his companions perished in bliz
zard near McMurdo bay, near the ex-
petitions baes of operations.
The Terra Nova did not stop at
Oamaru, but signalled her news of
disaster ashore and continued on to
the port of Lyttleton, where she is ex-
pected to arrive on Thursday. The
fact that she returned a month ahead
of her scheduled time prepared Scott's
friends, when the arrival was first re-
ported, somewhat for the news OF
calamity, although it was at first
thought that Scott and his companions
were aboard, homeward bound, to tell
of the great scientific explorations
they had made.
Reports were current at the time
the Terlra Nova sailed for the Ant.
arctic on Dec. IA, 1912, to bring back
the Scott party that some of the mem
bers of the relief expedition had ex-
pressed grave doubts as to whether
Captain Scott and his fellow explorers
would ever return. No reason was
given for these doubts, but they were
freely expressed.
Captain Scott had been in the Ant
arctic nearly three years. The last
message from him was received in
April, 1912, when Lieutenant Pennell,
commanding the expeditionary ship,
Terra Nova, returned to New Zealand,
bringing word that Captain Scott, with
q party of four men, was within 15O
miles of the South Pole, and was still
pushing on. He sent back word that
he would remain another winter in the
Antarctic to complete his work. The
brief massage was in Captain Scott's
own handwriting and said: Il am re-
naming in the Antarctic for another
winter in order to continue and COM
plete my work"
Captain Scott had shortly before
sent back a report to his base at Nc
Murdo sound showing that on Jan. 8,
1912, he had reached point $50 miles
from the pole and was advancing to-
ward his destination. The dispatch
from Oamaru, New Zealand, shows
that in fifteen days he covered the
remaining $50 miles, having travelled
at the rate of ten miles a day.