Show l 1 YEARS AYEARS DISASTER RELIEF COST GOST Red Cross Aided Victims Victims Vic Vic- Vic Vic- tims Urns in United States states Losses Losses Total two Seventy disasters with hun bun reported killed and Injured and more mare than either cither homeless or ot requiring assistance called for tor emergency emer- emer coney gency relief relict measures measures measures' and the exI expenditure ex- ex expenditure I of ot by the AmerIcan Red lied Cross during the fiscal year rear ending June 30 1922 according to a statement based on the forthcoming forthcoming forth forth- coming annual report of ot the Red Cross The greatest toll of ot life Ute was taken by hurricane and tornado hile the overflowing o of ot rivers the of r dams and torrential rains trove the greatest number of ot people p ople from their homes The property loss was estimated at more than 30 The years year's disasters reported Included In In- eluded twenty-six twenty floods nineteen tornadoes tornadoes tornadoes tor tor- fifteen fires four epidemics two two theatre collapses two shipwrecks bridge collapse col col- col one an airship and a lapse mine explosion railway collision colli coil sion alon Ion nod and a drought Of ot the floods la Ia lathe n the United States that at San An An- tonio Texas caused the th greatest property loss and the highmark highmark high highmark mark of t fatalities while the 1110 1 in the vicinity of Vicksburg and Natchez atchez Miss forced persons from Crom their homes A National Calamity In the Red Cross disaster relief records there will probably remain for many years one calamity which touched nearly every state with a sense gens of horror and of loss This was wasI I the he distressing collapse of at the roof root of the Knickerbocker Theatre In Washington D. D C. C resulting I In nine nine- ninetysix ty six deaths and persons Injured Situated In the center of the ful tul Northwest residential section this notion motion picture theatre was patronized b jy sy many persons of ot prominence bothIn both bothin in n the official and civil life Ute of the Na Na- Ional lonal Capital whose family and personal personal per per- onal connections radiated out over he the entire country The horr horror r was intensified by a terrific snowstorm which though It t retarded did not dock Red Cross relief Airship Crash Finds Aid at st Hand The crash and destruction of the U.S. U. U S. S 3 Army's large airship Roma in n Virginia Virinia Vir- Vir ginia inia last February with the loss of 31 officers and men and 11 Injured was was he the first disaster of Its kin kind l to call fur furr ned led fed Cross relief In this country The Tire suddenness of ot the accident tested the preparedness of ot the organization and of f d the Chapter at Hampton Va but buthe buthe the he response was Immediate and relief I furnished the survivors also funds for he the expenses of ot relatives of the dead dealt who rho came from long distances to claim heir their own In the years year's oversea record for tor aid rendered by the Red Cross are two fires ires In the Philippines one in Manila which destroyed 1000 homes with a aass aass loss ass of and perso persons lade made homeless the other at Tonio Tonto which drove from their dwellings In n medical relief that was quick and effective the smallpox epidemic In Sun San o which had a total of cas ases s with deaths In a single le da day the re readiness of the Red Cross tor or action and the same can be said said of f the San Domingo hurricane which killed 12 persons and reduced the homes ones ornes f t persons to wreckage e. e A flood In n San Salvador with a death toll 11 ll of 50 and 2000 refugees was also effectually handled by the local Chap Chap- ter r of the tile American Red Cross Relief Machinery Ma Perfected ted The year has seen the further per of disaster relief tive ve measures ID In every field of ot Ameron Ameri- Ameri American can m on Red Cross activity and t that the work ork may be carried on to still sUll greater accomplishments accomplishments' the American Red Re 1 Cross ross Is appealing for tor widespread renewal re re- newal of membership during the a as a. asial ul ial l. l Jo 12 to be t J Js this s |