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Show Fire Walkers Have Close Call. Hcrkeley, Cnl. An exhibition performance per-formance or tho rites of tho famous pngnu worship of flro prnctlccd by tho flro walkers or Tahiti, given in Berkeley, Berke-ley, almost ended In tragody. Two or tho flro walkers, Prlost Puhln Aplha-mils Aplha-mils nnd his wife, nttemptcd to wnlk with bnro feet across a pit of whlto hot stones, around which wero shooting shoot-ing red snnrllng tongues of flame, when their clothing caught flro and both wero badly burned beforo being rescued by tho spectators. Tho solos of their foot showed no ovidonco or tho wnlk over tho blnzlng pit, tho upper up-per portions or their bodies nlono being be-ing burned. |