The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-05
ShackletOn Party Lands Safely
at Punta Arenas.
Daring Explorers Given a Big
Ovation in Chile.
SIR ERNEST NEVER GAVE UP
Only His Dogged Determine
ton Saved Lives of Men.
Four Attempts Made Before
MarOOned Party Reached.

Punta Arenas. Chile, Sept. Sir
Ernest Shackleton, who arrived here
Sunday from Elephant Island. having
rescued his twenty-five comrades who
were marooned there, will continue
his journey to England at once
The explorer with the men whose
lives he had striven SO persistently to
save, made port on the steamer yell
cho. on which he had sailed from
Punta Arenas on August 26 on his
fourth dash to the relief of the MEM
bers of his party whom he had been
obliged to leave behind him in the po-
lar region.
Shackleton reports that all are well.
In the adventurous career of Lieu
tenant Sir Ernest Shackleton, R. N.
perhaps no single explorer will stand
out in such a gallant light as this
climax of his logged and undaunted
efforts to extricate the bulk of his
devoted followers from their icy
prison.
Wouldn't Give Up.
Since his arrival at the Falkland
Islands on May 81 with picked
handful of his men. after thrilling
hardships and perils in an open boat,
from preparations and personal en-
deavors to go back for the bulk of his
followers. marooned of necessity on
an ice bound island swept by the
storms of the southern winter.
The marooned men, in addition to
their sufferings from the climate.
were face to face with the mental
outlook that their leader and his COM
panions would probably perish at sea
and that their own predicament might
never be known to the world.
Carpenter McNish had been given
the job of fitting out the expeditions
4 largest remaining boat for Shackle-
toms forlorn hope.
1T was difficult job" he said aft
erward, but with the help of George
one of the seamen, who made a great
hard at sewing frozen canvas, we
managed to make good.
| A Crazy Craft.
| I'VE decked her with sledge run
ners, box lids aand canvas and made
! her as seaworthy as possible, but even
then it seemed a crazy craft in which
to sail $50 miles thru ice and gales.
"A week after we started, while in
a gale, a rope of our sea anchor was
severed by the ice and we lost the
anchor That seemed the last straw,
but Sir Ernest rose to the occasion as
usual and I never saw him in better
form than that day" ms
Tried a whaler.
Before leaving South Georgia for
the Falkland islands, Shackleton
/ found an eighty-ton whaler which he
/ used in a desperate attempt to return
to Elephant island. That was on May
| IS. The vessel proved too frail for the
work of breaking thru the ice barrier
and the dangerous attempt had to be
abandoned
| Having reached the Falkland
! islands he sent a message to London
asking for a rescue ship. Meanwhile
the government of Uruguay, learning
| of his need sent him a steam trawler.
On this little vessel he set out in June
J and penetrated the ice floes to within
/ twenty miles of Elephant island There
! the ferocity of the weather and the
I crushing power of the ice compelled
! him to turn back.
His third attempt was made from
Punta Arenas with the seventy-ton
wooden schooner. the Emma. provid-
ed by the British association of Magel-
lanes, at the southernmost tip OF
South America. The ship was toe
light for her task and the weather
! forbade an approach nearer than loo
miles to Elephant island.
The fourth and last expedition
which has reached a successful con-
clusion was undertaken in the steamer
Yelcho. which had towed the Emma
part of the way on her unsuccessful
dash.
Given Big Ovation
The Shackleton party was greeted
| with the greatest enthusiasm here
They paraded in the streets clad In
ftrr nd with n