Amtrak train crash injures dozens
From Times Wire Reports
An Amtrak train plowed into the back of a freight train and crushed one end of a boxcar under its wheels, injuring dozens of people, some seriously.
Some passengers were hurled into the seats in front of them in the accident on Chicago’s South Side, authorities said.
One of the passengers, Coert Vanderhill, 60, of Holland, Mich., said the train was approach- ing the station at 15 to 20 mph when the engine “just ran right up the tail end” of the freight train.
Vanderhill suffered a small cut.
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