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Show 850 SiSASTER DEATH ' I TOLL FOR ONE YEAR ... mi. iBEK Red Cross Gives $1,871,000 Re- We lief When 65,000 Families H Arc Made Homeless. JB&J Forty-three disasters, resulting In SPsj tho death In the United States of 8.r0 & persons and the Injury of 2.R00 cnlloeH EsS for emergency relief measures nniS ms tho expenditure of $1,871,000 by the SjEh American Rod Cross during tho flscivJ OP? year ending June IK), 1021, says no ijwkl announcement based upon the fortlw- SftSj coming annual report of the Red Cross, feB These disasters cnusod property dan K3l age estimated at (30,000,000, nfToctoft ffjjb sixty-seven communities nnd rondorott w$Su 05,000 families homeless. rati! Tho year's disasters wero of vary 3P Ing types, Including snvornl which pra- S3 vlously had never boon thought cT IB ns fnlllng within that classlflcc- D tlon. Tho Red Cross furnished S relict In seventeen fires of magnitude,, H five floods, seven tornadoes or cy- jH clones, ono devastating storm, three H explosions, Including tho ouo In WnlB H street; ono building accident, two H typhoid epidemics, tho most serious bt- H Ing that at Salem, Ohio, which at- H fected 0 per cent of tho population'. H ono smallpox epidemic, In tho republft- H of Haiti ; one train wreck, tho raco riot H at Tulsa, Okla. ; the famlno In Chlnrv H emergency relief In fomlno among th- H Indians of Alaska, the grasshopper H plaguo In North Dakota nnd an eartlv- H qunko In Italy. H Pueblo Mott Serloue H By far the most severe of tho die- H asters In the United States during tike period covered by the Rod Cross re- H port was the Pueblo flood enrly ln H June, 1021, The rehabilitation prob- H lain confronting tho Red Cross lct H Pueblo was one of the most dlftlculc H In recent years. When the first news H of the horror was flashed throughout H the country, the American Red Crosx H Natlouul Headquarters responded wltni H i a grant of $109,000 for relief wort. M : Governor Slump of Colorado, appre- H elating the long and successful oxperf- H ence of the Red Cross In organlilne H I disaster relief work, placed the er- H tire responsibility for the ndralnlstm- H tlon of rellof In Its hands. H In response to appeals from Pros!- H dent Harding, Governor Shoup antii H other governors of western states nnC H through local chapters of the Red H Cross and other community orgnnlzi- H tlons, public-spirited citizens brought H the totnl contributed for Pueblo's re- H hnbllttntlon to uinre than $325,000. 1 The terrible havoc wrought by the H flood waters Is a matter of record. H More than 2,300 homes were nffocted U and 7,3M persons wero left homeless; U Estimates of $500,000 ns an absolute M minimum for rehabilitation were made JA by Red Cross oltlcials in charge of tlu H relief work, H Fast Work In Wall Street H The Wall street explosion was notn- H hie In thnt relief workers of the Red: JM Cross were on tho scene twenty rnlr- H lit es after the disaster occurred. The H race riot at Tulsa also wns unique In H disaster relief annals In that outside M of a small emergoncy relief fund cons- M trlbuted by the Red Cross, the only relief measures outside tho city con- H slsted of the service of social worb H ors. nurses and a trained executive B whose object wns to assist local force M In directing their own efforts. M In decided contrast with the pre- M vloiis year, only one tornado assumed! M the proportions of a major disaster. H This occurred on April 1C, In tho bor- U der section of Texas nnd Arkansas H with the city of Toxnrkana as tho M center. The stgnllleant fenture of this fl dl-aster relief work was the fact thru U It covered so much rural territory us M to make necessary a large number of M relief workers. H The famine In 'Jilnn, ueeesslliillm; M relief expenditures totalling more Hum M $1,000,000 by the American Bed Cross was by far the most serious of the M foreign disasters In which the Red H Cross gae aid. M Builds Up Its Machinery M In cmncction with the admlulstrn 'IH thin of disaster relief measures, mi In- ,H creasing effectiveness on the piirt of R the Red Cross to deal with cmcrgeit- Jf cles was manifested during thl' past iBi year. In 328 Chapters of tho Amerl- jS5 can Red Cross there have been iformcl- ' Ejj special rnmmlttees to survey the rt? Wi sources of their respective communl- fflti ties and to be prepared In case of &H disaster. In others of the 3,-102 iirtlvt? JB Chif '"I. II tiet' rl- of rn'imimlcnlli. , H bus I ' mi formed tlnuigh which Install- 9 taiusius lellif niii.t he il'spmclied to- jH nn. part of t' e Cnlted iUntes. JKL That Its tvn-k 'n this tit; Id mav lip- fflg cout'.ir-ed '' iT'titcr eTeeilve- jHlj ne ''i' Ann 't Pi"' iy-ks ii mjs- MB per" i f t ' 'd i r r''W.i if iSE i , ji. ) - - ,fj i.uiit' Hull' yH I'uil. in I n i-cn' i-Tvi I !.: etii from QHf Nini'i.ilnr 11 I" 21 IB |