Mount Etna to widespread reports of up to 15,000 (or even 20,000) human fatalities caused by the lava, contemporaneous accounts written both in Italian and English mention no deaths related to the 1669 eruption (but give very precise figures of the number of buildings destroyed, the area of cultivated land lost, and the economic damage). Therefore, it is uncertain where the enormous number of fatalities can be attributed. One possibility is confusion between this eruption and an earthquake that devastated southeast Sicily (including Catania) 24 years later in 1693. A study on the damage and fatalities caused by eruptions of Etna in
Etna Iron Works in Schenectady, NY. The property, along with the street in which it was situated, was later liquidated in a 1940s redevelopment. Roach himself went on to establish his own shipyard in Chester, Pennsylvania, the Delaware River Iron Ship Building and Engine Works, which became America's largest and most productive shipyard from its establishment in 1871 until the mid-1880s. At least 26 marine steam engines for 19 ships were produced by the Etna Iron Works. The following is a list of those ships, together with basic details of the engines fitted to each. Etna Iron Works The Etna Iron Works (sometimes