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\"Obviously there was a lot of mayhem,\" he told WPVI. \"People were pretty banged up. There was a lot of blood, a lot of bleeding. I pulled myself up. The guy who I kind of landed on was OK. The guy next to him was completely passed out, knocked unconscious.\"

Murphy said the unconscious man came-to, got off the train and began to help other people. Murphy said to his knowledge, most people had gotten off the train as of 11:15 p.m.

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PHOTO: An Amtrak train crashed on May 12, 2015, near Philadelphia.
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Paul Cheung, an Associated Press employee who was on the train told the AP it appeared the train went off the tracks. He said he was fortunate to be at the back of the train and the front \"looks pretty bad.\"

\"The front of the train is really mangled,\" he said. \"It's a complete wreck. The whole thing is like a pile of metal.\"

Amtrak canceled all service between New York and Philadelphia shortly after 11 p.m.

The National Transportation Safety Board is launching a go-team that will arrive at the crash site in the morning, and the Federal Railroad Administration said it was dispatching a team of investigators to the site this evening but were unable to confirm any details about the incident.

Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf said that he is closely monitoring the situation and is in contact responding authorities.

\"For those who lost their lives, those who were injured, and the families of all involved, this situation is devastating,\" he said in a statement.

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