Show alre in texas SAN ASTINIO tauaa dec 13 A letter fruci L H holman a ranchman of deane bexan baya the lamest and moat destructive fire know for yeara has ewelt over a large portion of the alaina and is still burning to the it began near tace river juat aido of fort summery two weeks ago and burned to the southeast taking the large pastures of ray bros doliver broi and others and n lario amount of open ranae then the wind turned and blew a ga e driving a solid breaid of fire fifty to five milea long to the east the beat coraa crud not hold the fire it crotser the Escar bade division of the syndicate pasture cleaning oat the greater portion of the range if it had not been for the heroic efforts of a few men along the fire and west of laplaca laplata La plata the whole country toward would hays been burned AB it was th firs waa lorcey south and crossed the auard in the south part of deaf frimith and castro counties the line of fire waa forced baat nearly through deaf smith counte until it struck randall county when it turned to the northeast oue iloie how far ia burned ia not known but it is supposed to have reached the front of the plaine A strong norther came up driving the fire line extending from the banar of the on the ast to a point fur east of here supposed to be the eastern edge 0 the plains to theonah theo nth toia solid breast of fire awesome auth was not less than milea lonz floar far in this direction it went in oot known here but last a dark bue bana ot was cetih sean up from the south the greater portion of the vast area included in the outlines of the fire was ba arned clean |