Re: (rshsdepot) Hell's Gate

["J. Henry Priebe Jr." <root_@_net.bluemoon.net>]

Just a quick note, despite the displayed date on the below email it was sent
to our server Thu, 30 Sep 2004 14:44:04 -0400 (EDT) so the 21 month delay
wasn't on our end!

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Henry

On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Julian (Jay) Underwood wrote:

> The Station master was Vince Coleman, who was despatcher at Richmond
> Station, less than 1000 feet from the pier against which the Mont Blanc came
> to rest before the explosion. From my own research, more than 60 Canadian
> Government Railway employees were killed or died as  aresult of their
> injuries December 6 1917, along with six from the CPR and four from the
> Dominion Atlantic Railway.
> 
> Jay Underwood
> Elmsdale NS (30 miles from Halifax)

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