Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1921-11-11
$50 DISASTER DEATH
 TOLL FOR ONE YEAR
Red Cross Gives $1,871,00o Re.
 ief When 5000 Families Are Made Homeless.

Forty-three disasters, resulting ir { the death in the United States of S5(
 persons and the injury of 2,5OO called
 for emergency relief measures and the expenditure of $1,871, 900 by the American Red Cross during the fisca year ending June 30, 1921, says ar
 announcement based upon the forth
 coming annual report of the Red Cross
 These disasters caused property dam
 age estimated at $3O,OOO,OOO, affected
 siXty-seven communities and rendered 65,O00 families homeless.
 e 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,
 live hoods,. seven tOrnadoes or cy-
 clones, one devastating storm, tl:"er
 explosions, including the one in Wall street; one building accident. tw, typhoid epidemics, the most serious be- ing that at Salem, Ohio, which af. fected 3 per cent of the population i; one smallpox epidemic, in the republic of Haiti; one train wreck, the race riot at Tulsa, Okla. the famine in China. emergency relief in faplne 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 . grant of $105,OOO for relief work. Governor Shoup of Colorado, appre- ciating the long and successful experl- ence of the Red Cross in organizing disaster relief work, placed the en- tire responsibility for the admlnlstra- tion 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 matter of record. | More than 2,3O0 homes were affected and 1851 persons were left homeless. ! Estimates of $5OO,0OO as an absolute minimum for rehabilitation were made l by Red Cross officials in charge of the 1 relief work.
 Fast Work in Wall Street
 The Wall street explosion was nota- ble in that relief workers of the Red Cross were on the scene twenty min utes after the disaster occurred. The race riot at Tulsa also was unique in disaster relief annals in that outside of small emergency relief fund con- tributed by the Red Cross, the only relief measures outside the city con- sisted of the service of social work CTS, nurses and a trained executive whose object was to assist local forces in directing their own efforts.
 In decided contrast with the pre- vious year, only one tornado assumed the proportions of major disaster. This occurred on April 15, In the bor- Ter sections of Texas and Arkansas with the city of TeXarkana as the center. The significant feature of this iisaster relief work was the fact that covered so much rural territory as ( o make necessary large number or ( elief workers. , The famine in China, necesstating elief expenditures totalling more than l 100000 by the American Red Cross vas by far the most serious of the , oreign disasters in which the Red T ross gave aid.
 Builds Up Its Machinery I In connection with the administra- on of disaster relief measures, an in- reasing effectiveness on the part of ne Red Cross to deal with emergen- les was manifested during the past ear. 2 In BPS Chapters of the Ameri- : an Red Cross there have been formed oecial committees to survey the re. ources of their respective communi- es and to be prepared in case of E saster. In others of the 3,4O2 active 2 hapters,, network of communication 2 IS been formed through which instan. 2 lneous relief may be dispatched to E ly. part of the United States. 2 That its work in this field may be E 'ntinued with ever greater effective E .ss, the American Red Cross is ap- .aling for widespread renewal of E embership during its Annual Roll E all, to be conducted this year from E