| Sherman Texas April 14, Conductor Cook and Motorman Bell, who were in charge of an interurban car due to Melissa at 1:50 o'clock, saw the cyclone coming and put in all speed. They succeeded in running their car out of range of the worst part of it and escaped damage. They arrived in Sherman tonight and stated that they could see the storm plainly and knew by the flying debris visible in the air that great damage was being wrought. When the power went off at 1:50 here Superintendent M.J. Loftus of the Texas Traction company tried to locate the two cars that were due at Melissa at that hour, and, failing to get service over the telephones on account of wires being down, manned several automobiles and sent linemen and others down the line to locate the trouble and it was through these men that the first news of the cyclone reached Sherman.
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