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 steamer "Etna", as well as a crew of men, were engaged to dynamite the snags. In January 1916, it was reported that many of the logging camps and mills on the north fork of the Lewis River which had suspended operations, some of them for several years, would resume work as soon as weather conditions improved. The decline of logging work had forced Capt. Lurlie J. Gray, of the "Etna", to tie up the boat. With logging activity expected to resume soon, Captain Gray was getting ready to return Etna into service. In late May 1916, Capt. Gray and