Hold up the train. Ammunition ship afire in harbor making for Pier 6 and will explode. Guess this will be my last message. Good-bye boys.
Canadian Government Railways train dispatcher Vince Coleman, doing everything in his power to save an awful lot of lives just before his death in one of the worst explosions of human history, 6 December, 1917.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Explosion
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