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Show THE SCENE DESCRIBED. Housus Swept Away and Crops Badly Demolished. De-molished. Minneapolis, July 14. At an early hour this morniug a special train bore the correspondent of the Associated Press from St. Paul to the scene of the terrible cyclone. No sign of the terrible havoc was visible until tho top of the hill overlooking the little valley was reached, where ou the side of the hill was seen a house belonging lo Mr. Harris Har-ris with the roof blown off and a part of the south side was blown away. Out buildings were scattered in a most demoralized de-moralized condition. No ono was hurt at this point. A quarter of a mile north the whole scene of destruction lay spread before the eye along the shore. At a point where the storm turned and crossed the lake stood the bouses of Schmmeir and Good ami another house hi which each had an interest. All thee were utterly demolished. All trees in the neighborhood were- torn, twisted and stripped of the bark and limbs and from mangled trunks of mauy hanged articles of clothing and bedding. .. In the lake are the bodies of four horses, floating amid heaps of boards and house timbers. Here, probably, will bo ft'"1"! tl,c bodies of tho missing, as they could not be found iu tho stacks of boards and furniture ou land. As illustrating the force of the wind, tin iron pump and 25 feet of iron pipe were torn from a well in front of Good's residence, and twisted and bent almost double and was deposited 50 yards from tho well. Ou the edge of the witer is a IHc of boards covered cov-ered with turf lifted from i swamp 200 feet away and strewu all about are pieces of furniture, books ind stove". Wells and cellars are filled to Ihe tops with building debris and iu Schurmeicr-s cellar lio the mangied remains re-mains of a hors". Tho grounds about these houses have the appearance, from ry distance, of having been gone over w:th a plow, while from this point trees were blown down in vast numbers aud ! crops demolished. " j |