{"id":138872,"date":"2026-02-23T01:01:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T07:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=138872"},"modified":"2026-04-06T08:29:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T13:29:48","slug":"this-day-in-history-february-23-1908","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=138872","title":{"rendered":"This Day in History &#8211; February 23, 1908"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>This Day In History, February 23, 1908 \u2013 Fire breaks out at NP roundhouse . . . .\u00a0<\/strong><em>\u00a0from the 125th Anniversary Calendar of Jamestown History.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/NPRoundhouseTDIH.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-192494 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/NPRoundhouseTDIH.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"445\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/NPRoundhouseTDIH.png 445w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/NPRoundhouseTDIH-300x202.png 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/NPRoundhouseTDIH-260x175.png 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 445px) 100vw, 445px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An immense crowd watches fire gut the middle section of the Northern Pacific roundhouse in 1908. It was reported that the roundhouse and machine shop were damaged by the fire with costs running up to $25,000. It is reported that the structures will be rebuilt.<\/p>\n<p><em>Information above\u00a0 from\u00a0The Railway and Engineering Review, Volume 48 and\u00a0 The Improvement Bulletin, Volume 36<\/em><\/p>\n<p>1712, Feb 26, 1908, Jamestown, N.D. Northern Pacific Railroad Company,<br \/>\nroundhouse. Damage, $25,000.\u00a0 In todays amount that would be\u00a0$730,460.36 .<\/p>\n<p>Six stalls in the roundhouse, workshop, boiler room and smithy were burned<br \/>\nby the fire at Jamestown, N.D. (No. 1712). It was caused by by, an explosion<br \/>\nof a lamp in the fan room. Brick firewalls in the roundhouse helped to stop<br \/>\nthe progress of the fire. Private fire apparatus used with used with good effects,<br \/>\nthough firemen were somewhat handicapped by the location of the fire pumps<\/p>\n<p><em>information above from\u00a0Insurance Engineering Public Safety 1908 , Volume 15<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Day In History, February 23, 1908 \u2013 Fire breaks out at NP roundhouse . . . .\u00a0\u00a0from the 125th Anniversary Calendar of Jamestown History.\u00a0 An immense crowd watches fire gut the middle section of the Northern Pacific roundhouse in 1908. It was reported that the roundhouse and machine shop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":192494,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-thisdayinhistory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138872"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220025,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138872\/revisions\/220025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/192494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}