Two people were killed and more than 100 injured when an Amtrak train traveling from New York City to Miami collided with a CSX freight train early Sunday morning in South Carolina.

The Amtrak train was carrying 139 people and eight crew members when the crash occurred, causing it to derail around 2:45 a.m. near Cayce – about 10 miles south of the capital Columbia.

The two people killed were Amtrak workers, South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster said, according to The State newspaper.

He also said it “appeared” that the Amtrak train was on the wrong track when it collided with the freight train that was stationary and empty.

“It appears to me that the CSX train was the track it was supposed to be on,” McMaster said at a briefing. “It appears Amtrak was on the wrong track. That’s what it appears to me.”

He said the Amtrak train was traveling at 59 mph.

“It’s a horrible thing to see to understand the force that is involved,” he said after visiting the site. “The first engine of the freight train was torn up and the single engine of the Amtrak train was barely recognizable. It was quite a crash.”

McMaster said 116 people – some with minor injuries and others with more serious wounds – were taken to local hospitals for treatment.

He said 116 people – some with minor injuries and others with more serious wounds – were taken to local hospitals for treatment.

“The injuries range from cuts and bruises to severe broken bones. All the injured have been transported to local hospitals,” South Carolina Emergency Management Division public information officer Derrec Becker said earlier.

Passengers were taken to a middle school for shelter and everyone has been removed from the train, The Lexington County Sheriff’s Department said, adding that the Red Cross was assisting.

“We know they are shaken up quite a bit. We know this is like nothing else they have ever been through. So we wanted to get them out of the cold, get them out of the weather – get them to a warm place,” sheriff’s spokesman Adam Myrick said.

The two people killed were riding on the Amtrak train, said Lexington County coroner Margaret Fisher.

Elliot Smith said he heard the wreck from three miles away and compared it to an exploding propane tank.

“The sound was so loud, you instantly knew it was bad,” Smith, 22, told The State.

He and a friend trekked over to the crash site and when they arrived many of the passengers were lined up outside the train while others were still making their way off.

He told the newspaper that he could hear a child crying and saw several older riders with their arms wrapped around emergency personnel.

The lead engine and several passenger cars of Amtrak 91 derailed after the crash, which spilled about 5,000 gallons of fuel.

The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the cause.

Amtrak set up a passenger information line at 800-523-9101.

The White House said President Trump has been informed of the crash and will receive updates while at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Fla.

“Our thoughts and prayers are with everyone that has been affected by this incident,” said the statement from Deputy White House Press Secretary Lindsay Waters.

It’s the second fatal crash involving an Amtrak train in less than a week.

A train carrying Republican lawmakers to a conference in West Virginia slammed into a dump truck in Virginia last Wednesday.

A passenger in the truck was killed.

Amtrak riders at Penn Station were shaken by the recent crashes.

Anna Greene was returning to Boston after visiting New York City on Sunday.

“It’s nerve-wracking but I’m still going to take it,” said Greene, 22, wearing a New England Patriots hat. “Clearly something needs to be looked at … but it wouldn’t keep me from buying a ticket.”

Doug Cureton, an education consultant from Fort Lauderdale who was traveling to see family in Rhode Island, said the crashes in Virginia, South Carolina and a derailment in Washington in December that killed three have left him “not highly concerned but a little unnerved.”

Mark Kane was heading to Philadelphia and said traveling by train seems more dangerous now than going by airplane.

“Chances are still pretty low,” he said.

With Post Wires