Patrick Vincent Coleman ( 13March 18726December 1917 ) was a train dispatcher for the Canadian Government Railways ( formerly the ICR , Intercolonial Railway of Canada ) who was killed in the Halifax Explosion , but not before he sent a message to an incoming passenger train to stop out of range of the explosion . Today he is remembered as one of the heroic figures from the disaster
Halifax Explosion
Halifax Explosion
Vince Coleman (train dispatcher)