Excerpt from The Tragic Story of the Empress of Ireland: An Authentic Account of the Most, Horrible Disaster in Canadian History, Tory, Constructed From the Real, Facts Obtained From Those on Board Who Survived, and Other Great Sea Disasters The collision which sent the Empress of Ireland to the bottom of the St. Lawrence with hundreds of passengers in their berths produced a shudder throughout the civilized World. And the effect on the Spirits of the millions who received the Shock will not soon pass off. The Titanic tragedy sat heavy on the minds of the people of this generation for months after it happened. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.