At Emmitsburg, Maryland, students at Mount Saint Mary help contain a disastrous fire in the town

At around 10 p.m. a fire broke out in a livery stables in Emmitsburg, Maryland.  The flames soon spread out of control towards the town square.  With many thinking it the work of the Confederates and hesitant to help, the students at nearby Mount St. Mary's College massed to fight the fire.  It was finally brought under control around 7 a.m. but not before a quarter of the town, around twenty buildings, had been severely damaged.  (By John Osborne)