And Associated Press employee, jim gaines is also among those killed. John rawlins is live and eva pilgram is at 30th street station. Lets begin with john rawlins. Reporter well, good afternoon, the mayor has cautioned that much of what is reported so far is preliminary and subject to change the death toll stands at six but we learn that is likely to increase today, the city is not saying how many people are missing or unaccounted for at this time. And as for survivors they all say it happened very, very fast and at one minute they were going into a curve and the next moment the train flew off the track. It was the moment i could taste the dirt underneath me and i knew we had stopped. I thought we could deal with this the sounds came back and you could help. Passenger beth davis described the moments the heavy train car came to rest. Four body his been removed from the wreckage and a fifth was due to be removed. One passenger died at the hospital and that brings the death toll to six.
Eerily quiet Christmas aboard worldâs passenger ships
By Opinion
Brian Ingpen
Cape Town - IN MY kortbroek years, a stamp album was a most agreeable Christmas gift. At the time, I was immersed in philately, fascinated by beautiful stamps from countries across the world, but especially from many Commonwealth countries.
Many of the countries were unknown to me until the stamps arrived and, through that hobby, I learnt much about geography.
An exciting Christmas present another year was a realistic fire engine, with a long extension ladder and a siren. I began doubting the Father Christmas bit as I had seen a âsimilarâ fire engine in a toy shop â and it had disappeared!