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 (sternwheeler) bore and stroke of . In December 1912, Etna Transportation Company, owners of "Etna", bought an electric generator to install on the steamer. Electric lights were made necessary because of the increased level of traffic on the river required the steamer to operate during darkness, particularly in the winter when the days were shorter. Horace Campbell planned to use "Etna" on the Lewis River route in conjunction with the sternwheeler "Mascot". Logging camps and mills up the Lewis river depended on shallow-draft steamers like "Etna" to bring in supplies. "Etna" also carried passengers. In June 1910, when low water barred