The Press., 1921-11-03
$50 DISASTER DEATH
 TOLL FOR ONE YEAR
Red Cross Gives s1,s71 ,ooO Re- lief When 65, ,00O Families
 Are Made Homeless.

the death in the United States of $50 persons and the injury of 2,5O0 called for emergency relief measures and the expenditure of $1,e71, ,OOO 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,OO0,OO0, affected sixty-seven communities and rendered 65,O0O families homeless.
 The years disasters were of vary ing types, including several which pre- viously had never been thought of as falling within that classfica- tion. The Red Cross furnished relief in seventeen fires of magnitude,
 i've 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 g 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 a grant of $1O5,OO0 for relief work Governor Shoup of Colorado, appre- ciating the long and successful experi ence of the Red Cross In organizing disaster relief work, placed the en- tire responsibility for the administra tion 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- tiOns, public-spirited citizens brought the total contributed for PueblO's re- mobilization to more than $325,OOO
 The terrible havoc wrought by the flood waters Is matter of record. l More than 2,30O homes were affected l and 1881 persons were left homeless. l Estimates of $5OO,OOO as an absolute l minimum for rehabilitation were made | by Red Cross officials in charge of the l relief work.
 Fast Work in Wall Street
 The Wall street explosion was n0ta- | ble 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 | relief annals in that outside | of small emergency relief fund con- tributed by the Red Cross, the only | relief measures outside the city con- sisted of the service of social work 1 CTS, nurses and a trained executive l whose object was to assist local forces in directing their own efforts.
 In decided contrast with the pre- l viOus year. only enc tornado assumed | the proportions of a major disaster. 1 This occurred on April 15, in the bOr- l der sections of Texas and Arkansas l with the city of TeXarkana as the | center. The significant feature of this | disaster relief work was the fact that | it covered so much rural territory as l to make necessary a large number of l relief workers.
 The famine in China, neceSSitating l relief expenditures tOtalling more than l $1 100000 by the American Red Cross | 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 1 year. In BPS Chapters of the Amerl- can Red Cross there have been formed l 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. a 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- pealing for widespread renewal of