Show HOW RED GROSS WHEELS GO ROUNO ieh WHEN STER STIES THE there Is no rumbling about during crisis because trained workers know what to do and how to do it they accomplish wonders in record time recent tornadoes in central states examples of sudden great trouble help would reach our community very quickly in period of stress just how does the red cross begin work N when hen an emergency arises must most persons know la in a ginneral way any that the red cross Is on the ground very quickly after a di baster da ster and rescues the living builes the dead and carca cares for thy the destitute but perhaps few know how the first step Is taken or v ho takes it or what he be does next this story Is 1 meant to shon just what was done and how when the tornado of may 20 laid waste angle the cities of mattoon and charleston ill with a loss of nearly IW meg 1000 dersons ier sons made homeless and property worth millions destroyed it was mas late on a saturday afternoon when allen news neus of the disaster began to trickle from front jhb telegraph wires to the newspapers offices brid shops were closed and chicago had gone home to its dinner and its saturday evening relaxations the first word nord to the red cross of the storm came through a chicago paper to charles lee dryson of the central division staff of the red cross one of the editors called mr dryson bryson at bis his home and told him what had happened feell feeling nc sure the red cross would mould vant to get on the job it did director john J 0 connor oconnor of the central division was la in wash was it ington attending the red cross war w ar council at whick it waa was determined to ask the country for nut but mr dryson located d walter davidson Dav ldson another of staff who I 1 bud d fanu remained late at the office to finish some work and they took bold hold of the situation instantly after wiring iring N director 0 connor and the national officers mr davidson Dav ldson started for mattoon on the next train mr air dryson remaining in chicago to keep the office ol 01 0 in on and give all possible help from there the newspapers kept them both informed of the widening extent of the disaster mayor swan Is calling for troops and estimates the dead in mattoon at other points whence the nurses and Aorl ers i wire tre summoned an tit unofficial report aid said that food and blankets were nere needed and A A sprague 11 II director of the lied red croas supply service made arrangement arrangements to open a great corporations who wholesale lale ma warehouse and ship everything tit tiny ty need sunday though it was nag secretary tary champion of tho the chicago chapter arranged to get GOO CM pair pairs of 0 blankets from the chapters warehouse houpe and send them on the first train hut but the i vires ires from mattoon working busily all day lay improved imi roved long enough late at night for mr dandson Da DaN ldson Idson to get through a message that the food and blancet Llan let situation mas not just then acute but that he lie wanted disinfectants and anti the liend head of a wholesale drug concern was ans routed out of bed tho firms warehouse opened and at tit two tuo in the morning a red cross man with a consignment of iodine peroxide of hydrogen chlotilde chlo ilde of lime little and other supplies started for the atrick en cities mr davidson D had find been joined by W D timber thurber field secretary for illinois whom ho he placed in charge at charleston when mr 0 connor oconnor arrived with the nurses and mor workers kers he found both his lieutenants on ou the ground and with alth the chicago office ready to give instant su support port he lie began the relief work A committee of business men was organized a number of mailer smaller committees told off to take charge of each detail of the situation and in a few minutes the machinery was as in operation the were given the best eur our and ani nursing care the hungry were fed 11 lie bom homeless eless given shelter elit lter the dead identified and made ready for burial plans drawn up for rebuilding the shattered shatter cd homes and a fund vart 1 cd ed to rehabilitate both wrecked cities other communities struck by branches of the same storm were div A y it ar A wr 4 mattoon and other cities in central illinois were wrecked a few weeks ago by a tornado which killed and injured hundred hundreds and wrought enor mius property damage the picture how shows a poor mother and her four children in the kindling wood aulne of their home the husband and father asa as killed red cross cro director directors doctor doctors and nurse nurses were in charge at the scene of the catastrophe within ten houra hours after the storm 11 was the last word direct from the stricken district before tho the wires were out of commission hext morning telegrams began to pour into division h headquarters mr bir davidson Dav ldson on the scene reported that perhaps 60 50 persons were dead in mattoon injured COO OW families homeless and private property chiefly residences of working people to the value of destroyed ila called for red cross nurses and work ers at tit once charleston he said was in but little better case than mattoon john IV champion executive secretary of chicago chapter and several members of the division staff realizing that the ned red cross mould be on the job hurried to the office and all day long and until after one 0 clock at night the office was reaching out with telegraph and telephone matching ned red a cross nurses and workers from their sunday diversions and start lii 2 tatu for Blatto mattoon orl and charleston mies bliss minnie F ahrens head of tho the chicago red cross nursing service and miss myra V van nostrand Noe sa on perin of the central dietr ct of the united charities plunged into the work of collecting their nurses and workers worker sno easy matter on a sunday when almost nobody was mas at home mr bir 0 connor reached chicago from NV washington ashington at three and in a it short time was han fling everything right and left he be issued orders for three hour bou and slid when he left for mat toon oon on the next train help from all over the central division was on the way to that town he ile took with him miss aarens and twelve of tier her bet nu nurry ritell and il fifteen trained work ere from the chicago united Chil charities M who had given invaluable help in the eastland Sast land steamer disaster itaster ill on the tame lame train went six crates of hospital supplies lift until after one oi clock that aji i t the office was held open completing arrangements by long distance with alth cincinnati indianapolis springfield st loafs louis and en relief by other workers for instance there inq a rumor that in northera north nort herx cri indiana 17 had been killed at one ince u and great property dam age done let bentley and loomis look after northern indiana and wire cleveland to help was mr 0 connor order let roster foster report to me at mattoon nith ith all the help he can bring A P F Ilent lcy ie Is otate state director of indiana F D loomis la Is head of the childrens md society of indianapolis and gave valued help at the ivel castle cyclone eugene C Q roster of indianapolis in a skilled charity worker kach did promptly what mr 0 connor wanted done many reported killed by cyclone near blickman K but help ha ani a been sent and we hava have the situation well welt in hand wired 0 M 1100 chairman of the cairo chapter tr cr he ile fird seen rurh ruch experience with thy the red crow crom in the ohio valley floody some years as ar ind sina knew exactly clift ant to do and bow to do it that Is how the abla of the lied red crosa cross started going round the moment the disaster occurred ai at d that flint ie Is how they will etan start going round for our buu community whenever it li Is struck by fire or flood earthquake or lence |