“We just flipped over. And then it was just dark and just dusty, and just a lot of blood,” Murphy said. “It was mayhem at first. I was in the Café car, so about eight or nine cars, I was in the fourth car probably. There was a lot of blood. A lot of folks got banged up, got hurt bad.”

Officials say 243 people were on board at the time of the crash. Murphy said it was chaos after the train came to a halt after rolling over.

“(People) didn’t care about anyone else, so stepping over people and stuff,” he said. “So I pushed out the emergency window. I had to lift myself up because it was kind of on the ceiling and then lifted people up. About eight or nine people got out.”