Quebec train derailment

Quebec train derailment

Five people confirmed dead, 40 missing. They may never come back, dead or alive, can be vaporized in the explosion Saturday morning after a driverless train rushed into the bustling city center of this idyllic city 250 kilometers from Montreal, Quebec.

People gathered along the city of Lac-Megantic the Versatile Montignac, a high school turned into a few hours in an emergency shelter and resource center, age, picturesque churches that dot the usually quiet streets now throbbing with official vehicles, the media, concerned residents still looking for their relatives and friends.

               

People gathered under the trees, hiding the bright sunlight, hugging and crying. Others came by the dozens throughout Quebec, vehicles loaded with food, toys, clothes, for those who are forced to leave their homes.

A young woman who worked at the now-stabilized Musi Café, near the center of the explosion, left the school in tears.

Learning there was still no news of his cousin, Andrée-Anne Sevigny and his colleague, Jo-Annie Lapointe, were devastated.

"They can not find them," she said. It had been almost 36 hours since the explosion.

Ed Burkhardt, president of the Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway, said Sunday night that the only train engineer has closed four of the five units of the locomotive of the train, as it is a standard procedure in the neighboring community of Nantes before Lac Mégantic target to sleep. Burkhardt said the next coach was probably due to arrive at dawn.