Train Derailed At Ross' Corner

Four cars in a combination freight and passenger train were derailed yesterday afternoon on the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad siding near Becker's Creamery, Ross' Corner. Two of the cars derailed were passenger coaches in which four persons were riding. No one was injured.

The train with nine cars had backed into the siding at the creamery and was leaving to go to Branchville at 3:10 P.M. when one of the front cars tripped the derailing device and ran off the tracks. Cars following also left the tracks and bumped along the ties until the engineer, Anthony Barbera, of Brooklyn, stopped the train. One of the two passenger cars sank deeply into the cinders at the side of the track and leaned dangerously over a slight embankment.

A baggage car, two passenger cars and the front trucks of a freight car behind the passenger cars were derailed. The engine and the baggage car were back on the main line by the time the train was stopped. Other cars were still on the siding.

Conductor in charge of the train was Herbert E. Costello, 298 Park Avenue, Newark. Henry Becker, 82 Bloomfield Street, Hoboken, was fireman. The derailment was investigated and reported by State Trooper A. E. Zazzi, of the Newton sub-station.