Amtrak's Miami-New York Silver Star was barreling through a predawn rainstorm at 77 m.p.h. when the last six cars suddenly jumped the tracks and slammed into two freight cars parked on a siding. While none of the passenger cars turned over, 25 ft. of the Silver Star's stainless-steel skin was peeled back, ripping out seats and killing five men and two women. "Glass and metal were flying in," said Dave Elmers, a passenger from West Palm Beach, Fla. "It just opened up that train like a sardine can." Said Steven Clark, a passenger from Philadelphia who was thrown from the train...
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