A lovely thing to contemplate the next time Intern Missius hops aboard Scamtrak to return home or to the City of Weird:
At least five people died when an Amtrak train bound for New York City derailed in Philadelphia Tuesday, Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter said, with six cars overturning and the engine separating from the rest of the train.
Amtrak reported that there were approximately 238 passengers and five crew members on board. Dozens of passengers have been taken to local hospitals for injuries.
“It is an absolute disastrous mess,” Nutter said this evening. “Never seen anything like this in my life.”
Fifty more passengers and crew were injured, half a dozen critically, to be more specific. Fortunately, ex-Congressman Patrick Murphy (D-PA8) was not among them:
“It just happened so fast. Obviously a lot of debris, lights went out … a lot of screaming,” former Representative Patrick Murphy said. He was on board when the train derailed.
Murphy, an Iraq vet, wasn’t injured, so he started helping those around him who were, reports CBS News correspondent Jericka Duncan.
“I just stayed back and told the people who were bleeding to put some pressure on the wounds that they were bleeding from because you don’t want to see those people bleed out,” said Murphy, who served in Congress as a Democrat from Pennsylvania’s 8th district from 2007 to 2011.
His military training came through in the moment when he didn’t want to leave anyone.
“We have an ethic in the military, you know, we leave no one behind and I wasn’t going to climb out when there were people still hurting,” Murphy said.
The cause of the derailment has yet to be determined, so terrorism cannot be ruled out as yet, but the NTSB is deploying as these words are being written.
And to all my Donk "friends" on Twitter who are trying to blame this tragedy on Republican niggardliness (as if....), I leave y'all with the immortal words of George Takei.....
UPDATE: Here's one possible reason the Amtrak train derailed: It attempted to take a corner at over twice the recommended velocity.
UPDATE II: Ace puts the aforelinked MSNBCCCP's Chris Cuomo devastatingly on the shrink's couch.
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