The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1921-11-02
$50 DISASTER DEATH
TOLL FOR one YEAR
Red Cross Gives Sl,8n,O00 Re'
lief When $4,000 Families
Are Made Homeless.

Forty-three disasters, resulting IN
the death in the United States OF o'o
persons and the injury Of 2,0Uo caiieu
for emergency relief measures ana
the expenditure Of $1,S71,0O0 By the
! American Red Cross during the fiscal
year ending June 80, 192l, says an
announcement based upon the forth
coming annual report of the Red cross.
These disasters caused property dam
age estimated at $3O,OO0,0OO, affected
| 'siXty-seven communities and rendered
6500O 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-
| 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 epidemcs, the most serious be-
Ing that at Salem, Ohio, which at.
fected 0 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 $10500O 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
local chapters of the Red
Cross and other community organiZa.
lions, public-spirited citizens brought
the total contributed for Puebo's re.
habllltatlon to more than $325.O 900.
The tprrih1a havoc ,
hood waters is matter of record.
More than $500 homes were affected
'nd 1891 persons We're left homeless.
Estimates of $500,C00 as an absolute
minimum for rehabilitation were made
Red Cross officials in charge OF tha
lief work.
Fast Work in Wall Street
The wall street explosion was nota.
e in That relief workers of the Red
ross were on the scene twenty min
Ees iHter the disaster occurred. The
ace riAt' at Tulsa also was UNIQUE in
isaster relief annals. in that outside
! small emergency relief fund con-
T1buted by the Red Cross, the onlv
elief measure outside the city con.
lsted of the sevice Of social work.
s. nurses and a trained executive
nose object was to assis. local force,
directing their own efforts.
In decided contrast Wits the nro..
louS year, only one tornado assumed,
10 proportions of a major disaster i
his occurred on April IL. in die hor. Il
ar sections of Texas and Avsausac, Il
TN the city of Texarkana +ts rbe.
'h'cr' The significant feature of -iilisi \
sa&t2r relief work was the fact ri.rr.L
covered 50 much rural territory As
make necessary large number eej
lief workers. L.
The famine in China, necessit. Ting
llef expenditures totalling more lm,
'ooooOO by the American Red Gloss
Us by Tar the most serious Of NE
reign disasters in which the Ena
oss gave aid.
Builds Up Its Machinery
IN connection with the administers. N
N OF disaster relief measures. an In. i 4
easing effectiveness on the part or.V d
lied Cross to deal with emergen. \
IS was manifested during the mast \ y
ar. In 32s Chapters of the Ameri.. <
4 lied Cross there have been formed,
Aclai committees to survey the re I \
irces OF their respective communi.. n
ana to be prepared in case of, 81
aster. In others of the 3,4O2 active. n
'pters, network Of communication *
) been formed Though WHICH instan. ! Y
leouS rellef may be dispatched to, *
! part of the United States. ~
nat Its work in this field NAV be- H
with ever greater efsective "
IS, the American Red Cross is IN. n
i'ing for widespread renewal, or IL