Show prompt action to relieve san salvador the american red cross has sent by cable to meet emergency relief needs in connection with the disaster at san salvador national headquarters of the red cross received its first word of the disaster on the afternoon of june 14 and at four that same afternoon it had sent 2500 to the stricken city through the state department later a cablegram from the united states legation in san salvador stat staling that the catastrophe was greater than the first reports indicated was transmitted to the red cross by the state department it was stated that the whole city was nas in ruins from the flood and that several hundred lives had bad been lost the red cross immediately sent an additional to be expended in relief work under the direction of the american minister |