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"I was sitting in the first seat in the front of the car facing backwards," Jackson said. "I was flung six feet. I landed on the shattered window (on the side of the train that hit the ground). I was lying on my back, gravel was flying everywhere. I was dragging along the ground. ... Maybe it was a minute, it felt like an eternity, I just wanted it to stop. ... I had gravel in my teeth, I was eating rocks. But I was grateful to be eating rocks because I'm still alive."
Afterward, there was chaos inside the train cars.
"My face scraped on the side of the train," said Kathleen Jones, 60, a nurses aid heading to work from Poughkeepsie. "We were going so fast around that turn, something wasn't right. All the sudden everyone went flying. We were dragging on the ground, people were landing on each other. Then there was dirt everywhere."
"I saw one lady that looked like her neck was stuck in the window," Jones said. "I don't ever want to take the train again."
"It was dark, but you could see people were asking everyone if they were OK ... it was smoky, the entire thing was filled with dust ... it was awful, we're lucky to be alive," O'Neill said
"All of the sudden we were just on our side. And there was a crash and dragging. A lot of people got cut by glass from the windows," he continued. "The firefighters helped us out through the top, obviously they helped the people who were the worst off first. We had to climb on the seats and railings to get out.
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