The log cabin Democrat., 1921-10-03
$50 DISASTER DEATH
 TOLL FOR ONE YEAR
Red Cross Gives S1,871, ,000 Re- lief When 65,OOO Families
 Are Made Homeless.

eho uCdlH III Lle OIlIleu SIdteS OI Soc persons and the injury of 2,500 called for emergency relief measures and the expenditure of $1,S71 ,0OO by the American Red Cross during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, says an announcement based upon the forth coming annual report of the Red Cross. These disasters caused property dam- age estimated at $3O,OOO,0OO, affected siXty-seven communities and rendered 65,OOO families homeless.
 The years disasters were of vary ing types, including several which pre- viously had never been thought of as falling within that classifics tion. The Red Cross furnished reiief In seventeen fires of magnitude, five floods, seven tornadoes or cy- clones, one devastating storm, three explosions, including the one in Wall street; one building accident, two typhoid epidemics, the most serious be- Ing that at Salem, Ohio which af- fected 5 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 China, emergency relief in famine among the Indians of Alaska, the grasshopper plague in North Dakota and an earth quake in Italy.
 Pueblo Most Serious
 By far the most severe of the dis asters in the United States during the period covered by the Red Cross re port was the Pueblo flood early in June 1921. The rehabilitation prob lem confronting the Red Cross In Pueblo was one of the most difficult in recent years. When the first news of the horror was flashed throughout the country, the American Red Cross National Headquarters responded with grant of S105,00O for relief work Governor Shoup of Colorado, appre- ciating the long and successful expert ence of the Red Cross in organizing disaster relief work, placed the en- tire responsibility for the administra- ton of relief in it's hands.
 In response to appeals from PreS.- dent Harding, Governor Shoup and
 
 through local chapters of the Red Cross and other community organiza- lions, public-sprited citizens brought the total contributed for Pueblos re- mobilization to more than S325, ,OOO
 The terrible havoc wrought by the food waters is a matter of record. More than 2,300 homes were affected md lop+ Estimates of S5OOoOO as an absolute minimum for rehabilitation were made )y Red Cross officials in charge of the 'elief work
 Fast Work in Wall Street
 The Wall street explosion was nota- )le in that relief workers of the Red ross were on the scene twenty mln- ltes after the disaster occurred. The -ace riot at Tulsa also was unique In disaster relief annals in that outside of a small emergency relief fund con- .rihuted by the Red Cross, the only relief measures outside the city con- sisted of the service of social work ers, nurses and a trained executive whose object was to assist local forces Il directing their own efforts.
 In decided contrast with the pre- Vious year, only one tornado assumed the proportions of major disaster This occurred on April E, in the bor- der sections of Texas and Arkansas with the city of Texarkana as the center. The significant feature of this disaster relief work was the fact that t covered so much rural territory as to make necessary a large number of relief workers.
 The famine in China. neceSSltating relief expenditures totalling more than Sl ,O0O GOO by the American Red Cross was by far the most serious of the foreign disasters in which the Red Cross gave aid.
 Builds Up It's Machinery
 In connection with the administra- tion of disaster relief measures, an in creasing effectiveness on the part of the Red Cross to deal with emergen- cies was manifested during the past year In 32S Chapters of the Amerl- can Red Cross there have been formed special committees to survey the re. sources of their respective communi- ties and to be prepared in case of disaster. In others of the 3,402 active Chapters, network of communication has been formed through which instan. taneous relief may be dispatched to any part of the United States.
 That its work in this field may be continued with ever greater effective ness, the American Red Cross is ap- pcaliug for widespread renewal of membership during its Annual Roll