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ByRoxannaHegeman and Michael Balsamo The Associated Press CIMARRON, KAN. An Am- trak train carrying 131 pas- sengers derailed in rural Kansas early Monday, mo- ments after an engineer no- ticed a significant bend in a rail and applied the emer- gency brakes, an official said. At least 32 people were hurt, two of them critically, authorities said. Hours later, investigators said they were checking whether a vehicle crash may have damaged the track be- fore the accident. The train known as the Southwest Chief was ap- parently traveling at about 75 mph when the engineer noticed the deformity in the rail and pulled the brakes, a U.S. official told The Associated Press. The official spoke on the con- dition of anonymity be- cause that person was not authorized to speak pub- licly about the federal in- vestigation. The train, which also had 14 crew members, was making a 43-hour journey from Los Ange- les to Chicago when it de- railed shortly after mid- night along a straight stretch of tracks in flat farmland near Cimarron, a small community about 160 miles west of Wichita. Eight cars derailed, and four of them ended up on their sides. Thirty-two people were taken to hospitals for treat- ment. Nearly all of them had been released by late morning, Amtrak said. One crew member was treated at the scene. The injured included two people who were airlifted to Amarillo, Texas, said Cay- tie Martin, a spokeswoman for the Northwest Texas Healthcare System. They were listed in critical con- dition. Authorities were exam- ining tire tracks leading to the rails. The damage did not appear to be inten- tional, Gray County sheriff's Deputy J.G. Sharp said. Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board were also at the scene. Daniel Aiken, of Lenexa, Kansas, said he heard screaming as he climbed out of an overturned car. He stopped to smell a fluid that was flowing through the car, fearful that it was fuel, but was reassured when he realized it was water. "Once people realized the train wasn't going to blow up, they calmed down," he said. Timothy Davidson, from Nashville, Tennessee, said he and several other pas- sengers heard what he called "a lot of clacking for about 20 minutes" before the accident. "The train didn't sound right," he said. Derek Kemp, who is mov- ing back to Kansas City, Missouri, from California, said he was in a bathroom when he felt the train sud- denly tilt, sending him face- first into the bathroom door and across a hallway into a baggage area. Kemp, who has fire and rescue training, quickly scrambled to help women and children off the train. Dave Gibbs, a Colorado man who was headed to Lawrence, Kansas, for a possible chef's job, said that the train "started rat- tling back and forth, and you could tell it was off the tracks." That shaking lasted five to seven seconds, he said, before the train began tip- ping, then coming to an abrupt stop that sent a woman tumbling onto him. "I was waiting for the worst. I was afraid I was going to die," recalled Da- vid Tisdale, who was New York-bound from his Ari- zona home. Amtrak did not say how fast the train was travel- ing when it derailed, nor did it immediately respond to calls seeking further de- tails. Visibility at the ac- cident site was relatively clear at the time of the de- railment. ACCIDENT Amtrak train derails in Kansas, injuring at least 32 OLIVERMORRISON —THEWICHITAEAGLE An Amtrak train derailed in southwest Kansas early Monday, injuring multiple people. 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