MENDON, Mo. — Two Appleton Boy Scout troops and their chaperones were among the passengers aboard an Amtrak train that derailed Monday afternoon in Missouri.
Scott Armstrong, the director of National Media Relations with the Boy Scouts of America, says there were 16 teenage members and eight adults supervising those Scouts.
Armstrong says two of the adults were hospitalized: one with a cracked vertebrae and the other with seven broken ribs and a bruised lung. The remaining Scouts and adults were transported by bus to a local hospital for observation. All were treated for cuts and bruises but nothing serious.
Action 2 News identifies the Scouts as members of Troops 73 and 12 with First English Lutheran Church in Appleton. They were returning home from a week-long backpacking trip at a High Adventure wilderness camp in New Mexico.
