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) navigation on the Willamette River above Newberg, Oregon, and government dredging operations had ceased, there was talk among the farmers along the river between Newberg and Wheatland of securing the steamer "Etna", then running on the Lewis River, to carry freight on the Willamette. On October 6, 1910, early rains raised the water level high enough on the north fork of the Lewis River so that "Etna" could navigate on the route. This was about three or four weeks before the water was usually deep enough for "Etna" to make the trip on the north fork In mid-February 1911, "Etna"