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Show ty K I It K 1ST TIIK SOUTHWEST. r. i . St. Paul, 0. The great prairie fir is still ragimrwitli unabated fury, a 3 though a slight rain ye.-teiday slajL. t its progress a little. The course r n the tire is siiutheaM, and at hist at counts it had reached nearly as I'a south as the Iowa border, and cast t " the Minne.-ota river, which it is; hop.-t 0 will stop it. A hi::!i wind ye.terda' il" drove it forward with great speed, an! it was burning (iercely'in the big wood r i around Cleneoe, Ljster, .Manknioo am ' New Ulni. Reports of its ravage, e were constantly coming, thou-h cvi denlly greatly exairgeraied. Tho loss !( cs, us far as positively known, are eon ' hiied to hou,cs, bams, fences hay and " ' wheat and farm stock vnly. Sofar a-I a-I . known two lives have been lost, am C tho.-e ol two drovers on their way It Port Carry. There are no means o: ascertaining the amouut of dama"c owing to the large tract of country ovci y , which the the has swept, and its inac cesMble nature, but it must be very heavy. -Many small towns arc completely com-pletely destroyed, and farm houses in the track of the Lire are almost invaria-r invaria-r , bly burned. The sutieriug wilt be great, many farmers having loA every-. every-. thing, with a long winter close upon 1 j them. |