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The Whitewright Sun
Thursday, April 14, 1927
pg. 1

TORNADO INJURES THREE NEAR DENISON
Denison, April 13 - Pete Harkins, his wife and a brother, nebro residents of Needmore, Oklahoma, were injured at 4:30 Tuesday afternoon when a cyclone swept over the little settlement northeast of Denison. Their home was completely wrecked, as was the home of Stanley Lloyd. Lloyd was employed in a field below his home, having completed a storm cellar at noon Tuesday. His wife and 2 c hildren ran to the cellar and escaped the tornado, which swept their home away before it.
Several other ho uses in the district were damaged, one having 2 rooms torn away, while the cyclone swept everything ahead of it for a distance of 2 miles and 100 yards wide. The Needmore district school, reported blown away, was only slightly damanged.
The storm formed west of Denison and attracted considerable attention here. It whirled about, apparently gathering force, and circled northwest across Red River and then traveled east. One mile east of the Colbert bridge it dipped into Red River, according to B.W. Finley, caretaker of the bridge. Great sheets of water were lifted from the swollen stream and dashed into the air by the funnel-shaped cloud. The storm then lifted and dipped again in the Needmore district, a mile west of the bridge.

The Whitewright Sun
Thursday, April 14, 1927
pg. 5

TWO NEGROES HURT IN STORM AT PILOT GROVE
A small storm struck the negro settlement, sou theast of Pilot Grove, Wednesday morning about 8:30 o'clock. Jack and Will Hardison, negroes, were injured. Two ho uses and one barn were damaged. It was reported here Thursday morning that the negroes were taken to a hospital at Sherman for treatment.