The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1921-11-16
$50 DISASTER Death
TOLL FOR one Year
Red Cross Gives S1,en,OOo ne
lief When 5000 Families
Are Made Homeless.

Forty-three disasters, resulting ~
the death In the United States OF GOV
persons and the injury of 2,ooo cnllea
for emergency relief measures ana
the expenditure OF $1,S71,OOO by the
American Red Cross during the nsca'
wear ending June 30, 1871, says Il"
announcement based upon the forth'
coming annual report of the heu 'ro'''
These disasters caused property daii,
aye estimated at $3O,00O,0oo, ailecteu
sixty-seyen communities and rendered
Ct. 900 families homeless
The years disasters were OF vary
ing types, including several when pre-,
viously had never been thought Vi
as falling within that classlilca.
ton. The Red Cross furnished
relief in seventeen fires of magnitude
five foods, seven tornadoes or cy'
clones, one devastating storm, three
explosions, including the one IN wan
street; one building accident, tWo
typhoid epldemics, the most serious De-
ing that at Salem, Ohio, which at
fccted 0 per cent Of the population;
one smallpox epidemic, in the republic
of Haiti lone train wreck, the race RIOT
at Tulsa, Okla. the famine in emma,
emergency relief in famine among the
Indians of Alaska, the gras$hopper
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 $105,O00 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 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-
lions. public-spirited citizens brought
the total contributed for Pueblos re-
Mobilization to more than $3.50
The terrible havoc wrought by the
flood waters is matter Of record.
More than $500 homes were affected
and 1851 persons were left homeless.
Estimates Of 100000 as an absolute
minimum for rehabilitation were made
by Red Cross officials in charge of the
relief work.
Fast Work in Wall Street
The Wall street explosion was nota-
lie 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
cf 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
eHs, nurses and trained executive
whose object was to assist local forces
IN directing their own efforts. -
In decided contrast with the pre-.
vt MS year, only one tornado assumed
the proportions of Il major disaster
This occurred on April Is, in the Dor
der sections of Texas and Arkansas
Win the city of TeXarkana as the
center The significant feature OF fiji,
disaster relief work was the fact thtt
it covered 50 much rural territory rs
to make necessary q large number of
relief workers.
The famine in China, necessitatinu
reilef expenditures totalling more tllan
$1O0O,OO0 by the American RED Cross
was by far the most serious of the
foreign disasters in which the Eel
Cross gave aid, "
Builds Up Il, Machinery.
In connection wish the administer.
ton Of disaster relief measures an IN.
creaSlng effectiveness en- the l,.Y. of
the Red Cross to deaf with e!ncrgen
cles was manifested during The past
year. In 1913 Chapters Of the Aneri.
can Red Cross there have been formed
special committees TO survey the re.
sources of their respective communi.
ties ana to be prepared in case of
disaster In others Of the 3,4O2 active
chapters network of communication
mas been formed Though which instan.
taheous RELIEF may be dispatched to
any part Of tie United States
That its wo,k in thiS+lled may, he
continued with ever greater effertivo.
ness the American Red Cross, is an.
pealing for widespread renewal ~
membership during its Annual Roll
Call, to be conducted This voor e..