The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1921-10-26
$50 DISASTER DEATH
!. TOLL FOR One YEAR
Red Cross Gives $i,871,00e He'
lief When $4,000 Families
Are Made Homeless.

Are Made Homeless
Forty-three disasters, resulting IN
the death in the United States OF o'v
PERSONS nt1d the Injury q 2;ooo caiiea
Tor emergency relief measures ""H
the expenditure Of $1,S71, 900 by tae
American Red Cross during the hsca'
year ending June 30, 1871, says ah
announcement based upon the 1orth'
coming annual report of the Keu CroSs'
These disasters caused property dhilii
age estimated at $3O,U0O,UOU, allecteu
sixty-seven communities and rendered
$4,000 families homeless.
The years disasters were OF vary
Ing types, including several when pre-.
viOusly had never been thought VI
as falling within that classiilca.
| ton The He'd Cross Furnished
! relief Iii seventeen fires Of illagbltnnp'
| 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 De-
| inc thht hit Salem; Ohio, which az
| fected . per cent of the populdtlPh;
| one smallpox epidemic, in the republic
| of Haiti; one train wreck, the race riot
| at Tulsa, Okla the famine in emma,
! emergency relief in famine among the
! Indians of Alaska, the grasshopper
| plague in North Dakota and an earth
quake in Italy. e.
| 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
J grant of $105,000 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 Press-
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
| ho fol n<,ib toI fnr DnaG1n'e, 20.
Mobilization to more than $780,, 900.
The terrible havoc wrought by the
flood waters is matter Of record.
More than 1890 homes were affected
and 1851 persons were left homeless.
Estimates of $5OO,00O 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-
Bile in that relief workers Of the Red
Cross were on the scene twenty min
utes alter the disaster occurred. The
race riot at Tulsa also was unique in
disaster relief annals in that outside
} Of snail emergency relief fund con.
| tribut2d by the Red Cross, tile only
relief measures outside the city con-
: sisted of the service of social work
! ers, n.lrses and trained executive
! whose object was to assist local forces
In directing their own efforts.
| In decided contrast with the pre-
! yious year, only one tornado assumed
the proportions of a major disaster
| This occurred on April Is, in the Dor.
! der sections of Texas and Arkansas
with the city of Teyarkana as the
center. The significant feature of this
disaster relief work was the fact that
1t covered so much rural territory as
to make necessary large number of
relief workers.
The famine in China, necessitating
relief expenditures totalling more than
! $1,OO0,O0O by the American Red Cross
was by far the most serious of the
foreign disasters in which the Red
Cross gave aid.
Builds Up Its Machinery
In connection with the administra.
tlon of disaster relief measures, an In.
creasing effectiveness on the part of
the Red Cross to deal with emergen.
/ cies was manifested during the ma
year. In 32S Chapters of the Ameri.
can Red Cross there have been forme 4
special committees II survey the re.
sources Of their respective communi.
ties and to be prepared in ease of
disaster In others of the 3,l0a active
Chapters network of communicable,
has been formed through which inston.
taneous relief may be dispatched tc
any part of the United States.
That It's work in this field may be
continued with ever greater effective.
ness, the American Red Cross is an