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) the Harvey Mill Company was building a logging railroad. The first car for the railroad was brought in on November 6, 1912 by the steamer "Etna". A large shipment of rails was expected, sufficient to construct the anticipated seven miles of trackage that the company planned to build. November 6 was also the first day that the water level in the river had risen sufficiently to allow "Etna" to resume operations. The first five cars of rails arrived at Woodland on November 20, 1912, and were placed on the river bank to be carried upriver by the steamer "Etna". There