Vince Coleman On December sixth, 1917 a train dispatcher named Vince Coleman was running the dispatch office beside the Halifax harbor. But one sailor who knew about the imminent explosion ran past the railway freight yards, warning Coleman and Lovett to clear out. Vince Coleman knew what was at stake when he ran back to tap out his crucial message. Vince Coleman was thinking about the passenger trains speeding towards the threatened harbor. He had to …
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…for them." The searchers found only two cups and two bones intact. They thought the bones belonged to Lizzie and Carmen. One of the cups looks like a ceramic shaving mug and has the words "Remember Me" painted on it. That mug is now part of an exhibit on the explosion at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in Halifax. Swetnam Hare believes her life might have taken another course if the explosion hadn't occurred.