If any fire, set as provided in the preceding section, should by accident and without any fault or neglect of the person setting the same, get beyond his control, such person shall be liable as provided in the second preceding section for all damages done by said fire, but not otherwise. But if such fire should by negligence, carelessness or be intentionally permitted to spread beyond the bounds of such strip of land mentioned in the preceding section, then the person setting such fire shall be liable both civilly and criminally as provided in the second preceding section.

R.L. 1910, § 109.