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Show MllcciTfils - THRU Of SUPERSTITION Finnish Miners Refute to Go Back to Work Until Bodies of Former Comrades Are Removed. Ilutto, MonL Until tho bodies ol the six Finnish miners, who lost their lives In tho fire in the Kast Side coal mlno of tho Northwestern Improvement Improve-ment compnny at Red ftjdgo last Friday, Fri-day, havo been removed, tho Fin-landers, Fin-landers, who comprise 60 per cent of tho working forco at tho Northwestern Northwest-ern mines, reruso to resume work, declaring de-claring they would not lie showing tho proper amount or respect to tho dead were they to begin work now. Tho superstitious rears or tho foreigners for-eigners nro believed to be, nt tho bottom bot-tom or their refusal to resume work. As thcro Is slight chance ot tho bodies ever being recovered, It being tho heller or tho mlno owners that tho remains or tho six have long slnco been entirely consumed, the company Is In a sort or n qunndnry. Should the Fins reruso to reconsider reconsid-er their announced determination, It will likely lead to complications nr-footing nr-footing tho two years' wage agreement agree-ment between the mlno operators and tho miners. |