Show DISASTER DEATH TOLL FOR ONE YEAR red cross gives relief when families are made homeless forty three di resulting in the death in tho the united states of persons and the injury of 2000 2500 called tor emorgene 3 relief measures and the expenditure of by the american lied nod cross during the fiscal year ending june 30 1021 mars an announcement based upon tho the forth C oni ing annual report of the lied cross theo disasters caused pro property porty dam age estimated at affected sixty seven communities and rendered families homeless the ears disa disasters were of varying types including several which pre pro had find never a been thought of RS as falling within that tion the red cross relief in seventeen alres of magnitude five flood floods seven toma doeg or cyclones ono one devastating storm three explosions including the one in wall street ono one building accident typhoid epidemic epidemics the tho most serious be heing that at balem ohio we which at fectea 0 per cent of the population ono one epidemic in tho the republic of haiti ono one train wreck the race riot at tulen tulsa okla the famine in china emergency relief in famine among the indiana of alaska the tile grasshopper plague in north dakota and an earthquake in italy pueblo moat most serious by far the moat severe of the disasters in tho the united stata during the period covered by the th red ned cross report was the pueblo flood early in june 1621 1921 the rehabilitation problem confront lne the hed crois in pueblo wax one of the most difficult in recent year years when the first newa news of the horror borror was wa throughout the country the american red crosa cross national tat ional headquarters responded with a arrant of for relief work governor shoup of colorado appreciating tho long and successful experience of the red cron in organizing distorter cr relief nork placed the entire for the alon of relief in its hands in response to appeal appeals from president IT ardIng governor gornor shoup and other governors of western states and through local cli chapters chap apters tere of the red cross and other community organizations public spirited rAti delzona zens brought the total contributed for PV pueblos Pue bl blog re tv moe than thin the terrible bIt havoc wrought by the flood good cateri Is 1 a matter of record more thai than AW homes were affected affo acted and persons were let left homeless ho meles Estl orates of as nAt ana absolute for rehabilitation were made by red cross officials in charge of the relief work fat fast work in wall vall street the wall street explosion was notable in th that relief workers of the itea cross were pu on the scene twenty inin utes after the dt disaster oc occurred curreL the race race riot at tulea tulsa aiko wast wair unique in disaster relief ann annals alsin in that outside of a small am all emergency rollet fund contributed tri buted by the cross the only relief measures outside tbt city con alsted stated of the service of social work era erg nurses and a trained whose whoso object was to assist local forces in directing their own af efforts forts in decided con contrast trist with the pro alous year only one tornado assumed tho the proportions of a major disaster this occurred on april IB 15 in tho the border sections of texas toni ant a arkansan Arkan with the city of as tho tile center the significant feature of f thi this disaster relict reller work was the tte facT that it covered so sop much rural territory as to rocky necessary y a large number of relief workers the camino in china chinn necessitating relief expenditures totalling talling to more thab by the american red cross was by fur tho the most serious of the foreign disasters in which the lied gr pave ive aid buildt up its it machinery in connect loh with the tion of dIc disaster taster relief measures an ln creasing on tho the part of the 4 to doni with I 1 elf cleve am lurlne tho kimt conr nr in 2 of f the he amerl run esin cited IP nm dheri been rih itil 11 x to tin the rl ro bourm ts of their reone alivo conwin tint tica ties and to bo be in of ll 11 master in others of tho the clinet r a network of has boon formed through aich instein relief inny be t patched to any port part of tho the united states that KB its work in this field inny nifty ho be continued with over ever renter greater nuns the Atno rican red cross ix ap pealing for renew nl of nt during its it annani roll call to bo be conducted thie this year from november 11 to 24 |