PARTY SUCCUMB TO EXPOSURE.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13647, 12 February 1913, Page 5

PARTY SUCCUMB TO EXPOSURE.

ACCIDENT TO SEAMAN EVANS

CAPTAIN SCOTT'S DIARY

RECORD OF A HEROIC STRUGGLE.

A SERIES OF MISFORTUNES.

(United Bre&s Association.—Copyright

Heport.).

(Received Feb. 11,.9.-30 p.m.)

London, Feb. 11. >

The Terra Nova arrived at Cape Evane on the 18th of January of this year, and obtained the following inform-, atioh from the shore party there:—,

Galpt^ Swtt ,^a<^iea-irh«^^ South PoW on tEe iStli b& January, 1912, and found' Captain Amundsen's tent arid records. On the return journey the whole of- the Southern party perished;. Captain- Scott,, Dr. Wilson; and Lieutenant Bowers died from exposure dur- J ing a blizzard about the 29th March]! 1912. The last camp. wa« eleven miles south of Qne Ton'depot, or. 155 miles from the hut at Cape Evans., 1

Captain Oates died from exposure on the 7th March, and Seaman Edgar Evans died from concussion of the brain on the 17th February.' Thp health of the'remainder of the expedition was excellent, . including Lieutenant' Campbell's party, who -wintered -in Terra Nova Bay.., ..- ?...]. , \ .;■.-, ..».■■.. ~v - .-,^ :.-. ' ; ;;