A St. Louis Zoo train carrying about 10 passengers went out of control and jumped the tracks Friday, killing the engineer, who was heard yelling that he could not stop the train.
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One passenger suffered cuts and bruises. Witnesses said some passengers jumped off when it was about to crash.The engineer, 67-year-old John Forsythe, was thrown from the train. Forsythe worked at the zoo for more than two years and was a locomotive engineer for a conventional railroad for 41 years.