| Show A YEARS DISASTER RELIEF BELIEF COST red cross aided victims in united states losses total seventy two disasters with iron hun deeds reported hilled killed and injured and more than either homeless or requiring raqul ing assistance called tor for emer gency relief measures and the ex ture of by tie tle american red cross during the fiscal year ending june 30 1922 according to a statement based on the forthcoming annual report ot of the rel cross the greatest toll of life was taken by hurricane and tornado while the overflowing of rivers the breal ing of dams and torrential rains drove the greatest number of people en from their homes the property loss was estimated at more than 30 1 I 1 the years disasters reported in clouded twenty six floods nineteen tor nadies fifteen fires tour four epidemics two theatre collapses two shipwrecks one an airship and a bridge col lapse mine explosion railway MIN rion slon and a drought of the floods in the united states that at san an aft tonio tonto texas caused the greatest property loss and the high mark of fatalities while the flood in the vicinity of vicksburg and natchez miss forced perS person orla from their homes A national calamity in the red cross disaster relief records there will probably remain tor for many years one ca calamity lamity which touched nearly every state with a sense of horror and of loss this was the distressing collapse of the root roof of the knickerbocker theatre in washington D C resulting in nine ty six deaths and persons injured situated in the center of the beautt ful northwest Nort buest residential section this motion picture theatre was patronized by many persons of prominence both in the official and civil life of the national capital whose family and per bonal connections radiated out over the entire country the horror wag was intensified by a terrific snowstorm which though it retarded did not block red cross relief airship crash finds aid at hand the crash and destruction of the U S arrays army s large airship roma in vir enla i list february with the loss of 31 officers and men and 11 injured was the first arst disaster of its kind to call for red cross relief in this country the suddenness of the accident tested the preparedness prepared nes of the organization and of the chapter at hampton ampton II va but the response was immediate and relief furnished the survivors also funds for the expenses of relatives of the dead who came from long distances to claim their own in the year years s over oversea sta record for ala aid rendered by the red cross are two fire fires in the philippines one in manila which destroyed JOW 1000 homes with a it loss 1058 of and persons made homeless the other at fit tonto which drove 8 3 from their dwellings in medical relief that was quick and effect effective ile the smallpox epidemic in san domingo which bad a total of 22 cases with ith deat deaths hs in a single day tested the readiness of the red cross for action and the same can be said of the san domingo hurricane which killed 12 persons and reduced the homes rf persons to wreckage A flood in san salvador with a death toll of 50 50 and 2 refugees was also effects effectually ally handled by the local chap ter of the american red cross relief machinery perfected the year has seen the further perfection of disaster relief tra the tile measures in every field of A amed meri can red cross activity and that the ork muy may be carried oa on to still greater accomplishments the american red cross is appealing tor for widespread renewal of member membership shi p during the an nual roll call to be conducted this year from armistice day idov No ember lember 11 to and including thanksgiving day november 80 30 s |
