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Vince Coleman,a train dispatcher for Canada Railways, sacrificed his life to warn an incoming train of an imminent explosion.His telegraph said, 'Hold up the train.Ammunition ship afire in harbor making for train
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Hold Up The Train, Goodbye Boys - Vincent Coleman's Last Message
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Fifteen stories: Heroic dispatcher keyed warning, perished in cataclysmic Halifax explosion
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Halifax Explosion commemoration to recognize hero of tragedy: Vince Coleman
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Vince Coleman (train dispatcher) - Wikipedia
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Saint Andrews School, Halifax, Nova Scotia - Vincent Coleman was a train dispatcher who gave his life the morning of the 1917 Halifax Explosion to warn incoming trains to stop because a
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Vincent Coleman was a train dispatcher for the Canadian Government Railways who was killed in the #HalifaxExplosion1917. But, not before sending a, By Tree for Boston
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