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) was taken downriver to Woodland on "Etna", where he was treated by Dr. Hoffman, after which Waldron was taken to a hospital in Portland. "Etna" was not worked after 1919. According to a contemporaneous source, on November 18, 1918, a rise in the water level of the Lewis River at Woodland resulted in the sinking of "Etna". The steamer was anchored behind a jetty. The water overtopped the jetty, carrying sawlogs with it. These sawlogs caught on the anchor cable, pulling the steamer down. Etna (sternwheeler) Etna was a steamboat that operated on the Lewis and Lake rivers of southwestern