Train Derailment

In an image from television, an Amtrak passenger train is shown shortly after derailing in the early evening of April 6, 2004, near Yazoo City, Miss. The 10-car train was traveling from New Orleans to Chicago.

An unidentified injured Amtrak passenger is transported by ambulance near Flora, Miss., to a Jackson, Miss., hospital on the night of April 6, 2004, following an Amtrak passenger train derailment earlier that evening near Yazoo City, Miss. The 10-car train, traveling from New Orleans to Chicago, derailed and toppled on its side in rural central Mississippi, killing at least one person and injuring at least 65 others.

Clutching the shoes her mother asked her to bring, Paula Turnage of Byram, Miss., recalls the urgent cell phone call she received from her 72-year-old mother, Mary Turnage of Kalamazoo, Mich., who was on the Amtrak passenger train that derailed: "She said the train went off the tracks and they were in the woods somewhere outside Bentonia. She was OK. She didn't have any shoes on."

Paramedics and emergency personnel remove an injured passenger from a makeshift transport vehicle April 6, 2004, near Flora, Miss., following the train derailment.

Amtrak train passengers are driven away from an emergency staging station in rural Madison County, Miss., near Flora, Miss., on the night of April 6, 2004, after being picked up by emergency personnel following an Amtrak passenger train derailment earlier that evening near Yazoo City, Miss.

A victim of an Amtrak passenger train derailment arrives at the University of Mississippi Medical Center's emergency room April 6, 2004, in Jackson, Miss.

Another victim of an Amtrak passenger train derailment arrives at the University of Mississippi Medical Center's emergency room April 6, 2004.

Another victim arrives at the University of Mississippi Medical Center.