Show DISASTER DEATH BEATH TOLL FOR ONE YEAR red cross gives relief when families are made homeless forty three disasters disaster resulting in the death in the united states of persons and the th injury ot of 2500 called for emergency relief measures measure and the expenditure of by the Amerl american can red cross during the fiscal y I 1 year ear ending june 30 1921 says an announcement based upon the forthcoming annual report of the reil red cross these disasters caused property damage estimated at affected sixty seven communities and rendered C idoo families homeless the years disasters disaster were of varying types including several which previously had never been thought of as falling within that classI fIca tion ion the red bed cross cros furnished relief relict in seventeen fires of magnitude fire floods seven coven tornadoes or cyclones one devastating storm three explosions including the one in wall street one building ac accident typhoid epidemics epidemic the most serious being that at salem ohio w which a affected i 9 per cent of the pop population one on smallpox epidemic in the republic of if haiti one train wreck the race riot at tulsa okla the famine to in china ewer emergency gency relief in famine among the th indians of alaska the gi grasshopper pei plague aie in north dakota and an earth quake in italy pueblo most molt serious hy fly for far the severe of the din all asters in the united states i juring during th 4 period covered by the red bed cross report was uns the flood early in june 1921 the rehabilitation inu confronting the red bed cross in pueblo was oue one of the most difficult in recent years when the first news of the horror was flashed throughout lite hie country the american red cross national headquarters responded with a grant of for relief work governor shoup of colorado appreciating the long and successful expert e ence ce of the red cross in organizing disaster relief work placed the entire responsibility for the taun of relief in its bands in response to appeals from president harding governor shoup and other governors of western states state and through local chapters of the red cross and other community organizations public spirited citizens brought the total contributed for pueblos pueblo rehabilitation to more than the terrible havoc wrought by the flood waters Is ai a matter of record more than 2300 homes were affected and persons were left homeless estimates of as an absolute minimum for rehabilitation were made by red cross officials la in charge of th relief work fast fail work in wall street the wall street explosion wax was notable in that relief workers of the red cross were on the scene twenty min 1 utes after the disaster occurred the race 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 cross the only relief measures outside the city consisted of the service of social workers nurses and a trained executive whose object was to assist local forces force in directing their own ef forta in decided contrast with the previous year only one tornado assumed the proportions of a major disaster this occurred on april 15 in the border sections of texas and arkan arkansas arkanas as with the city of texarkana Tex arkana as the tha center the significant feature of this disaster relief work was the fact that it covered a go much rural territory as to t make necessary a large number of relief workers the famine in china necessitating relief expenditures to talling more then than by the american red cross was by far the most serious of the foreign disasters in which the red cross gave aid builds build up its lt machinery in connection with the administration of disaster relief measures nu hn increasing effectiveness on the part of the red cross to deal with emergencies was manifested during the past ear in chapters of the american red cross there have hav been formed special pedal committees to survey survey the resources of their respective commini com muni ties and to be prepared in case of disaster dimster in others of the active a network of communication has been formed through which instas ganeous relief may be dispatched to any part of the tb united states state that it its work in this thin field may be b continued with ever greater effect lv nn the american red cross Is in appealing for widespread renewal of membership during its annual roll call to be ba conducted this year from noi november ember 11 to 24 |