Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1921-10-15
05C DISASTER DEATH
TOLL FOR ONE YEAR
Red Cross Gives S1,871,O0o Re-
lief When $4,000 Families
Are Made Homeless.

For emergency relief measures an
the expenditure of $l,SI1, 900 by the
American Red Cross during the fiscal
wear ending June 30, l92l, says an
announcement based upon the forth
coming annual report 0f the Red Cross
These disasters caused property dam
aye estimated at $50 100000, affected
sIxty-sevcn communities and rendered
65.OnO families homeless.
The years disasters were OF vary
ing types. including several which pre-
yiously had never been thought oi
az falling within that classified
ton The Red Cross furnished
rei,,7: In seventeen fires of magnitude
Ave floods, seyea tornadoes or cy-
clones. one devastating Stern; three
explosions, including the one In Wall
street; one building accident, twD
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
Of Tulsa, Okla. the famine In China,
emergency relief In famine among the
Indians Of Alaska, the grasshOpper
plague in North Dakota and On earth.
quake IN Italy.
Pueblo Most Serious
By far the most severe OF the dis
asters in the United States during The
peri d covered by the Red Cross re
port was the Pueblo food early H.
June, 1921. The rehabilitation prob
lem confronting the Red Cross In
Pueblo was one Of the most difficult
In recent wears. When the first news
of the horror was flashed throughout
the country. the American Red Cross
National Headnuartnrs responded with
grant " S1050 900 for relief work
Governor ShOun Of Colorado, appre,
eating 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 AMI
other governors Of western states and
! through local chapters Of the Red
| Cross and other community Organiza'
lions, public-spirited citizens brough,
| the total contributed for Pueb'0's re
Mobilization to more than $4,000.
The terrible havoc wrought by the
! food waters is a matter Of record
| More thnn $500 homes were affected
and 1851 persons were left homeless
Estimates Of SjOO,nO0 as an absolute
minimum for rehabilitation were made
by Red Cross officials inlcharse Of thu
relief work. = A
Fast Mo in Msass -Sls.-
The Wall street explosion was n0ta
bic in that relief workers of the Red
/ Cross were on the sceat twenty min
utes after the disa~ter acquired. TIL,
| race riot at Tulsa also was unique IL
disaster relief annals hi that outside
of a Sill emergency relief fund con
trihuted by the Red Cross, tile Onl.
reice measures outside the city con
sisted, of the service Of social work
crs. nurses and a trained executive
/ whose object was 10 assist local force
In directing their own Efforts.
In decided contrast with the pre-
vious year, only one tornado assumed
the proportions of nN1or disaster
This occurred on April 10, In the boz
der sections Of Texas and Arkansa
with the city If Texarkana as tn
center. The significant feature Of thi
disaster relief work was the fact tia
4 Il covered so much rural territory a
TO r'rte necessary large number q
relief workers.
The famine In China. lnecessltatin
relief expenditures totalling more I n
100000 by the American Red CroS
was by far the most serious Of n
foreign disasters in which The lie
Cross gave aid.
Builds UP Its Machinery
In connection with the ADMINISTERS
ton Of disaster relief measures. an ii
creasing effectiveness on the part r
the Rcd Cross to deal with enc, er
cies was manifested during the pa:
year. In 32S Chapters CT the AMER
can Red Cross there have been f"rle
special committees to survey the n
sources Of their respective c0mm:n
ties and In be prepared In case
disaster. In others Of the 3.402 actis
Chapters, a network Of communicate
has been formed III ough which insa,
taneOus relief may lie dispatched
any part Of tie United St"'es
That its wo~k N this .ield may
continued with ever greater efcctiv
ness. the American Red Cross s a
pealing FIR widespread renewal
membership during It's Annual r.
Call, To he conducted this year fro
November II TO "a