The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1921-11-04
$50 DISASTER DEATH
Tell FGa one YEAR
Red Cross Gives S1.871,o0o Re-
lief When $1,000 Families
Are Made Homeless.

Forty-three disasters, resulting IN
the death In the United States Of $50
persons and the injury Of 100 called
for emergency relief measures and
the expenditure Of $1.S71 600 by the
American Red Cross during the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1927, says an
announcement based upon the forth
coming annual report Of the Red Cross.
These disasters caused property dam
age estimated at S30,O00,OO0, affected
sixty-seyen communities and rendered
$4,000 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 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 o 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, TIE grasshopper
plague in North Dakc 4 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 food 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 $685. 900 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 ant
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 $685., 1000.
The terrible havoc wrought by tn
flood waters Is matter Of record
More than 1890 homes were affected
and 1851 persons were left homeless
Estimates of 100000 as an absolut,
minimum for rehabilitation were mad,
by Red Cross officials in charge Of TIL
relief work.
Fast Work In Wall Street
The Wall street explosion was nota
BILE in that relief workers of the Re-
Cross were on the scene twenty min
utes after the disaster occurred. TIL
race riot at Tulsa also was unique i
disaster relief annslss In that outsid
of a small emergency relief fund cor
tributed by the Red Cross, the onl
relief measures outside the city cor
sisted Of the service of social worl
ers, nurses and trained executiv
whose object was to assist local force
in directing their own efforts
In decided contrast with the pr,
vious year, only one tornado assume
the proportions of major disaste
This occurred on April Is, in the DO
der sections of Texas and Arkanss
with the city of Texarkana as II
center. The significant feature of tn
disaster relief work was the fact TIL
1t covered so much rural territory ,
to make necessary large number
relief workers.
The famine in China, necessitatir
relief expenditures tetalling more this
$1,0O0,O00 by the American Red Gro
was by far the most serious Of Il
foreign disasters in which the RI
Cross gave aid
Builds Up Its Machinery
In connection with the administr
ton of disaster relief measures, an
creasing effectiveness on the part
the Red Cross to deal with emerge
cles was manifested during the pa
year. In 1923 Chapters of the Anne
can Red Cross there have been form
special committees to survey the
sources Of their respective commu
ties and to be prepared In case
disaster. In others of the 3,4O2 aeti
Chapters, a network Of communicate
has been formed through which insts
taneous relief may be dispatched
any part Of the United States.
That its work in this field may
continued with ever greater effecti
ness, the American Red Cross Is ,
pealing for widespread renewal
membership during It's Annual R
Call, to be conducted this year I'm
November II to "a.