The St. Johns herald., 1921-11-03
$50 DISASTER DEATH
 TOLL FOR ONE YEAR
Red Cross Gives $1,871,00G Re- lief When 1000 Families
 Are Made Homeless.

the death in the United States of $50
 persons and the injury of 25OO called
 for emergency relief measures and
 the expenditure of $1,S71,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,OOO,OO0, affected
 sixty-seven communities and rendered
 65,OG0 families homeless.
 The years disasters were of vary
 ing types, including several which pre-
 viOusly had never been thought of
 as falling within that classifica-
 tion. The Red Cross furnished relief in seventeen fires of magnitude,
 five floods, seven tOrnad0es 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 9 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
 Isters in the United States during the peri d covered by the Red Cross re- port was the Pueblo foad early in June, 1921. The rehabilitation prob len 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 $1O5,0O0 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 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 a matter of record. More than 2,300 homes were affected md 7.351 persons were left homeless. Estimates of S5O0,O00 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 Jross were on the scene twenty min Ites after the disaster occurred. The ace riot at Tulsa also was unique in , lisaster relief annals in that outside # small emergency relief fund con- I ributed by the Red Cross, the only elief measures outside the city con- listed of the service of social work ITS. nurses and a trained executive whose object was to assist local forces n directing their own efforts.
 In decided contrast with the pre- -ious year, only one tornado assumed ( he proportions of a major disaster 'his Occurr6d on April 15, in the bor- Ter sections of Texas and Arkansas [ with the city of Texarkana as the ] enter. The SiCnjficant feature of this a isaster. relief work was the fact that ( covered 80 much rural territory as r 0 make necessary a large number of c elief workers. The famine in China. necessitating z elief expenditures tctalling more than 100000 by the American Red Cross 1 7as by far the most serious of the l; Oreign disasters in which the Red ross gave aid. a
 Builds Up It's Machinery
 In connection with the adminfstra- 4 on of disaster relief measures. an fn- n reasing effectiveness on the part of i, le Red Cross to deal with emergen- . ies was manifested during the past ear. In BPS Chapters of the Ameri- Il m Red Cross there have been formed 1ecial committees to survey the re. l )urces of their respective communi- a es and to be prepared in case of saster. In others of the 3,4O2 active T hapters, a network of communication o- IS been formed through which instan- o, IneOus relief may be dispatched to ny part of the United States. That its work in this field may be u 'ntinued with ever greater effective al ass, the American Red Cross is ap- fl ealing for widespread renewal of c