Show DISASTER FOR ONE YEAR red cross gives re lief when families are made Ho homeless meliss forty three disasters resulting in the death in the united frates of WO persons and the injury of 2600 called for emergency relief measures and the expenditure of by the american red cron cro during the fiscal year ending SUM june 80 8 1031 1921 says mrs an announcement based laon on the forthcoming annual aport of the red hed cross crol these disasters satera dl caused property dam age estimated at affected beven communities and rendered fa famines millem homeless 3 the years disasters disaster were of varying types type including which pre pr sly had bad ilver never bow been thought of am ai falling failing within that classification the red bed cross cron furnished relief la in seventeen fires of magnitude five fire floods flood maven even tornadoes tornado or cyclones one devastating 1 torm storm three explosions including the one in wall street one building accident two typhoid epidemics the most serious being that at salem balem ohio which st at fectea 0 9 per cent of the population one smallpox epidemic in the republic of haiti one train wreck the race riot at tulsa okla the famine in ching china emergency relief in famine among the indians indiana of alaska the grasshopper plague in north dakota and an earthquake ke in italy pueblo most serious by tar far the most severe of the disasters in the united states during the period covered by the red bed cross report was the pueblo flood early aft M june 1021 the rehabilitation problem confronting the red hed cross in pueblo was one of the most difficult 1 in rc recent 0 t years when the first news of the horror borror was flashed throughout the count country rj the american red bed cross national headquarters responded with a grant of tor for relief work governor shoup of colorado appreciating the long and successful experience of the red cross la in organizing disaster relief work placed the entire responsibility for the administration of relief in its hands in response to appeals from president harding Hardt ng governor shoup and other governors of western states and through local chapters of the red bed cross and other community eions pub public le spirited citizens brought the total contributed for pueblos rehabilitation habl ilta tion to more than the terrible havoc wrought by the flood waters Is a matter of record more than 2800 2300 homes were affected and persons were left homeless estimates of as an absolute minimum for rehabilitation were made by red lied cross officials in charge of the tha relief work fast work in im wall street the willi wall street explosion was wag nota ble in that relief relict workers of the red cro cross 58 were e 0 on n the scene twenty minutes utes after th the e disaster occurred the race rac riot at tulsa also was unique in disaster relief annals in that outside of a small emergency relief fund contributed tri buted by the red bed cross the only r relief ea lief measures outside the city consisted of the service of social workers nurses and a trained executive whose object was to assist local forces in directing their own efforts in decided contrast with the previous year only one tornado assumed the proportions of a major disaster this occurred on april IS 13 in the border sections of texas and arkansas with the city of Tex texarkana arkana as the center the significant feature of this disaster relief work was the fact that it covered so much rural territory as to make necessary a large number of relief workers the famine in china necessitating relief expenditures to talling more than by the american red cross was by far the most serious of the hie foreign disasters in which the red cross gave aid builds up its machinery in connection with the administration of disaster relief measures tin nn increasing effectiveness on the part ot of the red cross to deal with emergencies eni ergen cies was manifested during the past year in chapters of the american red bed cross there have been formed special committees to survey the resources of their respective communities and to be pre prepared bared in case of disaster in others of the 2 active chapters a network of communication has been formed through which instantaneous relief may be dispatched to any part of the united states that its work in this field may be continued with ever greater reater fr effective ness the american red cross Is appealing for widespread renewal of membership during its annual roll call to be conducted this year from november 11 to 24 |