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) to be ready to begin operations on Monday, May 13, 1912, with 25 to 40 men employed. About 25 men arrived at Woodland on Thursday May 9, and "Etna" took them to the logging camp on the North Fork at Yale, 25 miles upriver from Woodland. On Tuesday May 14, 1912, "Etna" went on a new schedule, running round trips on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays between Woodland and Ariel. Previously "Etna" had been traveling upriver one day and returning downriver the next day. The new schedule would remain in effect until the next low water season. In November 1912