The Free Press Office Burned

At about 5:30 a. m. on Monday last the office of the Detroit Free Press took fire from au explosión of gas, - a leakage having been causel by the wrenching of a pipe by a forcé of men who had been at work upon a sewer in front of the building. The fire spread rapidly through the building, and though the fire department responded promptly to the alarm and worked with a will it was not subdued until presses, machinery, and type were a mass of ruins. The forms for the Monday morning edition were taken from the press after the feedboards were on fire, removed to the Post and Tribune officej and the edition fmished. Some of the presses were saved in fair condition, the stereotype fouudry material, the mail lists, and part of a new font of type. The Bullock press, the largest and best press in the West, arrived from }he foundry a few hours after the fire. Our Free Press friends were out again on Thursday and have regularly appeared since, tlianks to their energy and the assistance of rival but generous fellow craftsmen. There was $42,000 insurance on presses and type, which we trust, with what can be saved from the wreek, will fully cover losses. H. N. Walker, formerly of the Free Press, owned the building, which was insured for $20,000, enough to rebuild, which has already been commenced. The publishers ot the Christian Advocate lost in type &c, about $1,000; insured for $600. We congratúlate the Free Press stockholders that it is no worse with them, and their readers on the fact that with the Free Press there is no such word as fail.