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No headersJACKSON, Tennessee (CNN) -- Candra Pennington huddled in her dorm room at Union University with about 15 other young women Tuesday night as bad storms swept through western Tennessee.
Students rush to the scene Tuesday to help people trapped at Union University, I-Reporter Mark Inman said.
At first, Pennington said, the students at the liberal arts Southern Baptist school in Jackson were "laughing and kind of joking," thinking they didn't have much to fear.
But suddenly, the heart of the storm was upon them, and they had to scramble to a nearby bathroom for shelter.
She said they barely escaped.
"As we were closing that bathroom door, the debris and the windows were shattering in with us and the ceiling was beginning to fall in on us," Pennington recalled.
"When we came out, we were just shocked
at what we saw -- to see that all of our belongings were gone, that if
we hadn't made it to that bathroom, we wouldn't have been OK." 
Watch as the student describes a terrifying night »
Mark Inman, 21, a CNN I-Report contributor, was across campus when the tornado roared through Jackson. Things were chaotic just after the twister struck around 7 p.m. 
See I-Report storm photos »
"Everybody was trying to jump right in and get people out from under the debris," Inman said. "A lot of people were shaken from being under the debris."
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