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Show FRENCH INSTRUCTORS DROWNED IN SOUTH Two Officers and American Army Sergeant Ser-geant Lose Lives During New Mexico Cloudburst. DEMING, N. July 27. Lieutenant Lieuten-ant Lambert Herbert and Lieutenant Jean Jegou, French officers, instructors instruc-tors at Camp Cody, were drowned last night in White Water creek, ten miles southeast of Silver City, N. M., when a torrent of "water from a cloudburst in the mountains overturned the motor ear in which they were riding and swept it into the swollen stream. Sergeant Ernest Picard of the United States army, who was driving, also lost his life. Picaid's home was in Worcester, Mass. The' officers were returning from a visit with friends at Tyrone and Silver City when the accident occurred. |