On this night, Rock Hill College, a Lasallian ministry in Ellicott City (MD), was destroyed in a major fire. There were no deaths because the resident students were attending an event in the gymnasium that evening. The school was never rebuilt, after having served the area since 1857.
Brother Clementius, The History of the District of Baltimore (privately published at Ammendale [MD], 1948), p. 127. See also Brother Angelus Gabriel, The Christian Brothers in the United States 1848-1948: A Century of Service (NY: McMullen, 1948), p. 408.
