Fire devastated Christian Brothers College, the only Catholic boarding school in the St. Louis (MO) area, killing six firemen, two invalid Christian Brothers, a male nurse, and a night watchman.
W. J. Battersby [FSC], The History of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools in the Nineteenth Century 1850-1900 (London: Waldegrave, 1963), pp. 121-122.. See also W. J. Battersby [FSC], The Christian Brothers in the United States 1900-1925 (Winona, MN: St. Mary’s College Press, 1967), pp. 301-302.
