SHERMAN, Tex., Aug. 5. - A terrible water-spout struck this city at 4:25 this afternoon occasioning thousands of dollars worth of damage. The clouds began lowering and ominous mutterings were heard in the north for fully a half hour before the storm swept over the city.  Every witnesses who stood on the outside of its path say it was funnel shaped, very black, with some indications of electrical forces.  It began in a moderate rain, which lasted but a minute, when with a crash the whirling and blinding vapor swept over the city, accompanied by a blinding rain, in the midst of which men and animals were enveloped and lost to the sight of those who were standing in the store fronts.  It approached from the north and when in the heart of the city veered to the southeast, passing out to the prairie lands in exhausted force.  The last part of the storm was tempered with a sharp fall of hail.  After the rain ceased the sun shone out and the people for the first time realized the damage of which the following is a pretty accurate list, commencing when the fury of the wind first appeared and following in its track:

New hide store, Geo. Noyer, Broad and Mulberry, front blown in, damage $250.
Old stable, corner of Walnut and Pecan, occupied by James Smithen as a shop, completely demolished, $300.
A block of six wooden storehouses, occupied principally by  Chinese and Negroes, confectioners, on Pecan and Travis, front blown out and east end demolished.  Loss $500.
J. W. Buckman, soda water factory, Pecan and East, damaged $200 injuries to building and machinery.
Stable on Jesse Dean's place, near Union Depot, demolished, loss $400.
Roof on Jennings & Fitch's stable loosened, loss $100.
Awnings at Levy's corner blown down, loss $200.
Cornice on Wallace's hardware establishment badly damaged.
Roof of D. E. Lewis' furniture establishment blown off and other damages to the amount of $350.
The roof of the Courier office was lifted and press and type injured.
William Scott's residence, 208 East Lamar, raised off the blocks and damaged to the amount of $250.
The entire roof of Scott & Kelgin's store was blown off and damage done to house and stock $350.
The smokestack of the Diamond Mills was blown down.
Cullers & Henry's warehouse was unroofed.
Ed Rausey's residence, corner Houston and Branch, off the blocks.
Joseph Campbell's residence, Branch and Jones, off the blocks and badly broken up.
Bole Walker's residence, Montgomery and Jones, turned around and damaged with contents, $400.
McCowan's residence, Branch and Jones, off the blocks.
J. D. Work's new residence on Walnut, wrecked.
The Cotton Belt freight depot, completely demolished.
All the boarding tents on the Cotton Belt year were blown down and the occupants nearly drowned.

The force of the wind can be realized when it is known to have started a full train of cars and shoved the along rapidly for several hundred yards.
The casualties, as far as have been learned are:
Miss Mary Walker, aged 16, is badly hut about the chest and shoulders.  She was in her father's house at the time it was shattered.  The hurts are very painful, though not necessarily fatal.
Charles Willis, a small colored boy, was blown from a spring wagon and had his left arm broken.
George Powell tried to whip his horse up to escape it but both he and the beast were precipitated and a broken wrist resulted.
There are no reports of outside damages.

AT POTTSBORO

POTTSBORO, Tex., Aug. 6. - A small cyclone or wind storm passed over this place to-day at 12 o'clock.  The rain fell in torrents and deluged nearly every house.  The front of a vacant building of Pacific street, formerly used as a saloon, was completely torn out.  A vacant building on the south side of the railroad was completely wrecked.  Mr. Bates' photograph gallery was demolished and contents ruined.  Several chimney tops blown off, several dwelling houses moved from their foundations, a number of stables and out-houses blown down, but fortunately no one was hurt.  It was one of the severest storms that ever visited the place.