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TWO LADIES BURNT TO DEATH.- A most melancholy disaster by fire took place in Leicestershire to-day.

Two young ladies, aged nineteen and seventeen, Miss Catherine and Miss Agnes Sergison, were on a visit to their uncle at Netherseal Hall, and about nine o’clock in the evening they were sitting in the dressing-room, with Mrs. and Miss Robertson, when, on passing the fireplace, Miss Agnes Sergison’s dress, being of light material, caught fire. Her sister, who was similarly attired, rushed to her aid, and both were instantly enveloped in flames. The dresses of Mrs. and Miss Robertson, who went to their assistance, also caught fire, and the Misses Sergison were so badly burnt that they died the following night.

Mr. Robertson, their uncle, was somewhat burned in his attempt to rescue the young ladies; his injuries were not considered serious at the time, but having sufficiently recovered to be present at the consecration of Netherseal church, two or three weeks afterwards, he took cold, serious symptoms set in, and he died after a short period of intense agony, greatly aggravated by the effects of the burning.