Two dead, including Amtrak engineer who feared dying on the job, in horrific S.C. train crash; another 116 injured
An engineer killed on an Amtrak train that slammed into a parked freight train and derailed in
After a recent round of traumatic train accidents and deadly derailments,
"Me and him always talked about this, something happening,"
Kempf and conductor
Another 116 people were injured in the horrific crash, during which thousands of gallons of fuel spilled, according to officials.
It was the third deadly accident for Amtrak in the last two months, and each of the other ones weighed heavily on Kempf.
The father of three sons who lived in
He went to work for CSX once he got out of the Army, and spent between eight or nine years first as a conductor and then as a certified engineer,
"They paid good money and you got good benefits," he said.
"He was a good guy,"
Cella, who lived in
But he had his own theories about what happened, based on early evidence.
"It appears to me that the CSX was on the track that it was supposed to be on," McMaster told reporters. "It appears that Amtrak was on the wrong track."
McMaster did not say how fast the Amtrak train was going, indicating it was possibly moving as fast as 59 mph.
Amtrak President
Instead, Anderson said, trains were being manually routed by dispatchers. He stopped short, however, of saying whether that contributed to the crash, deferring to the
Photos showed the mangled front of the CSX locomotive, which officials said was empty at the time of the collision.
"That's about as forceful you can get," McMaster said, adding the CSX train was "barely recognizable."
"It's quite a crash," he said.
"This is bad. Really bad," wrote Twitter user jdspires, alongside a video showing the massive emergency response at the site of the wreckage.
"So many ambulances," he said in another post.
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The Amtrak train, which left from
All passengers were cleared out by
"Their spirits were unusually good," McMaster said. "I know there's one woman there on her way to her husband's funeral."
Many of the passengers were reportedly jolted from their sleep by the accident.
One of them was
"Nobody was panicking," Pettaway told CNN. "I think people were more in shock than anything else."
"My thoughts and prayers are with all of the victims involved in this morning's train collision in
About 5,000 gallons of diesel poured out of the CSX train, officials said, but the flow caused no public threat.
The derailment marks the second incident for Amtrak in the past week.
A chartered train carrying dozens of
And three people were killed in December, when a barreling Amtrak train went off the rails in
An initial
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