Cheboygan County MI Archives News.....Mail Carrier is Frozen to Death [Joseph White] 1914
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Duluth [MN] News Tribune, Dec 26, 1914 1914
Cheboygan Man Carried Away on an Ice Floe in Lake Huron

Cheboygan, Mich., Dec. 25.-Joseph White, 40 years old, a mail carrier, was 
frozen to death last night while adrift on an ice floe in Lake Huron a few 
miles from this port. Fred Roberts, another carrier who was with White was 
badly frost bitten.

After delivering the Christmas mail on Bois Blanc island, two miles out in the 
lake the two carriers started back for the mainland with their dog sled at 2 
o'clock Thursday afternoon. When about half way across the straits the ice 
parted and they found themselves drifting toward the lake.

They were exposed to the bitter cold for 28 hours. Some time in the night, 
White succombed and Roberts was hardly able to crawl ashore tonight when the 
floe drifted to land 18 miles from Cheboygan.

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