Patrick Vincent Coleman was a train dispatcher for the Canadian Government Railways who was killed in the Halifax Explosion, but not before he sent a message to an incoming passenger train to stop out
Vince Coleman
Coleman's headstone in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia
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On May 4, 1988, a fire followed by several explosions occurred at the Pacific Engineering and Production Company of Nevada chemical plant in Henderson, Nevada, United States. The disaster caused two f
Vince Coleman (train dispatcher)
…Coleman was survived by his wife Frances (1877–1970). She and the youngest of their four children were seriously injured in the explosion. PEPCON disaster – Roy Westerfield sacrificed himself to warn others of an imminent explosion. Miki Endo - During the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake she sacrificed herself to…
The largest of the several explosions at the PEPCON plant