The Daughter Of Longtime Michigan Senator Gilda Jacobs Missing After Philly Train Derailment

DETROIT (CBS Detroit) The daughter of longtime Michigan Senator Gilda Jacobs is missing after she was last known to board an Amtrak train outside Philadelphia.

It has not been confirmed that she was on Train 188, which left Union Station in Washington, D.C. around 7 p.m., bound for Penn Station when it crashed just before 9:30 p.m., leaving at least seven dead and 200 injured.

Jacob's spokesperson, Stacey Range-Messina, says there has been no communication with her daughter Rachel Jacobs, 39, since last evening.

Jacobs, who left the state Senate in 2010 to work with the Michigan League for Human Services, has flown to the East Coast, but has yet to receive any new information on her daughter.

"The last communication she had was reportedly a text that she sent to her husband at about 7:45 last night saying she was boarding the train and heading home," Range-Messina said.

Rachel Jacobs lives in New York and the job she commutes to at a start-up online apprenticeship service is in Philadelphia, the spokeswoman said.

Staffers at her company frantically searched hospitals last night for Rachel Jacobs, the mother of a 2-year-old.

"We called, texted and emailed her right when crash happened, because we knew she was on the train," ApprenNet COO Emily Foote told Philly Mag. "I went to the hospitals last night and she wasn't in any of them. I went to the churches and schools where people are being sheltered, and we still can't find her."

Amtrak officials say there were approximately 238 passengers and five crew members on board when all seven cars derailed.