DOCTOR BRAVES ICE FLOE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18374, 14 April 1923, Page 2 (Supplement)

DOCTOR BRAVES ICE FLOE.

BEATEN BY AERO PLAN E^g|| ; In an f effort ;to save a" woodman, i whcs* skull had | been 5 fractured ,-'• while ho wa«working ;• oil Beaver f Island; • a<■ forest covered speck, 10 '- miles from shore, in Lake Michigan, Dr. J. B. Brown, of Levering, a village on the mainland, made » dangerous, trip ;across, the ice floes. For 14 hours the plucky doctor climbed over ice jams higher than his : head, walked gingerly/ over thin 'ice, -f- made detours round open water; and leaped from floe to floe. , ■. ■ 7*>*^iP When, late at night, he reached tAf island, he was utterly exhausted. ; In the \ meantime - relief had been organised scientifically at the town of Charlevoix. Here the story of the woodman s plight f was told ■; by the ■ fellow-lumberman* who, coming over the ice, had firs* brought news „of the, accident • to tM people of Levering. t , , , 0 -'| An urgent message c was telephoned w, r i the army aviation field at Mount Clemens 300 miles away. :An -■ aeroplane was a • j once despatched fto ; pick up a:; surgeon Charlevoix, and convey him to B<* n ■' Island. . , • , ■ ' iji&oa*? The surgeon had performed an oP{*»* tion, left the injured 7 man comfortaDi.. and was -back-in: Charlevoix hours »f»ZA;.: Dr. Brown reached: the log cabin *?SH the patient lay, ". 1