WALKER, Minn. – A Buffalo man escaped from his pickup truck after crashing through ice on Leech lake. Cass County Sheriff Tom Burch said the man, age 19, was operating a Ram truck with a snow plow on a plowed roadway over the lake when the ice cracked open. This was about 11 a.m. along the southern shore. The lake, 160 square miles, is 150 feet deep in places.
