The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1921-10-14
$50 DISASTER DEATH
TOLL FOR ONE YEAR
Red Cross Gives S1,071,000 Re.
lief When $4,000 Families
Are Made Homeless.

Forty-three disasters, resulting In
the death in the United States Of $50
persons and the injury Of $500 called
for emergency relief measures AMI
the expenditure of S1.S71 900 by the
American Red Cross during the fiscal
year ending June 30. 1921. says m
announcement based upon the forth
coming annual report Of the Red Cross.
These disasters caused property dam
age estimated at s300Oo,O0O. affected
sixty-seven communities and rendered
5000 families homeless.
The years disasters were Of vary
ing types, including several which pre-
vIoUsly had never been thought Of
as falling within that classified
ton. The Red Cross furnished
relief in seventeen fires Of magnitude,
five foods, seven tornadoes or cy-
clones, one devastating storm, three
explosions, including the one in Wall
street; one building accident, tw1
typhoid epidemics, the most serious he
ing that at Salem, Ohio, which af-
fected per cent of the population ;
one smallpox epidemic, in the republic
Of Haiti one train wreck, the race riot
al Tulsa, Okla; the famine In China,
emergency relief In famine among the
Indians of Alaska. the grasshnpper
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 wears When the first news
of the horror was flashed throughout
the country, the American Red Cross
National Headquarters responded with
grant Of 100000 for relief work
Governor Shoup Of Colorado, sppre
ciating the long and successful expert
ence Of the Red Cross In organiZinc
disaster relief work, placed the en-
tire responsibility for the administrs
ton Of relief in its hands.
In response to appeals from Pres.
dent Harding, Governor Shoup and
other governors Of western states and
through local chapters Of the Red
Cross and other community organiza
tons, pubic-spirited citizens brought
the total contributed for Puehlo's re
Mobilization to more than $4,000.
~T~t- - . ~,
flood waters is matter OF record.
More than 900 homes were affected
and 1881 persons were left homeless
Estimates Of s5o0,aoo as an absolute
minimum for rehabilitation were made
by Red Cross officials IN charge of thu
relief work.
Fast Work in Wall Street
The Wall street explosion was nots-
bile in that relief workers of the Red
Cross were on the scene twenty min
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 con
trihuted nv the Red Cross. the only
relief measures outside the city con
sisted of The service Of social work
ers. nurses and trained executive
whose object was TO assist local forces
in 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 Il. In the bor-
der sections " Texas and Arkansas
with the city Of Texarkana as the
center. The significant feature Of this
disaster relief work was the fact that
1t covered So much rural territory as
10 make necessary large number of
relief workers.