The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-10-07
$50 DISASTER DEATH
TOLL FOR ONE YEAR
Red Cross Gives s1,871,00o Re-
lief When $4,000 Families
Are Made Homeless.

persons and the injury OF 900 called
for emergency relief measures and
the expenditure OF 81 ST. 900 by the
American Red Cross during the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1921, says an
announcement based upon the forth
coming annual report Of the Red Cross.
These disasters caused property dam
age estimated at S30.OO0,000 affected
sixty-seven communities and rendered
5000 families homeless.
The years disasters were Of vary
ing types, including several which pre-
viously had never been thought Of
as falling within that classified
ton. The Red Cross furnished
relief In seventeen fires OF magnitude,
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 at
fected o 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
grant of 100000 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-
tion of relief i'm 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, philosophical citizens brought
the total contributed for PuebIo's re-
Mobilization to more than $4,000.
The terrible havoc wrought by the
Hood waters Is IL matter OF record.
More than 1000 homes were affected
I.f
Estimates of 100000 rs an absolute
minimum Cor rehabilitation were made
by Red Cross officials in charge of the
relief work.
Fast Work in Wall Street
The Wall street explosion was nota-
ale 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 a 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
ers. nurses and trained executive
whose object was 10 assist local forces
in directing their own efforts
In decided contrast with TIE pre-
viouS year, only one tornado Il stunned
the proportions of major disaster.
This occurred on April l., in the hor-
der sections of Texas and Arkansas
with the city of Texarkana as the
center. The significant feature OF this
disaster relief work was the fact that
IL covered so much rural territory rs
To make necessary a large number OF
relief workers.
The famine i'm China. ncceSSitating
relief expenditures tptaliins more thau
100000 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
tiOn Of disaster relief measures. an in
creasing effectiveness on the part o.
the Red Cross 10 deal with emergen
cies was manifested during the pas;
year. In 32S Chapters of the Ameri-
can Red Cross there have been formed
spVClai Voliihl'tecs ~ SURVEY the IL
sources OF their respective cOmmuni-
ties and TO be prepared in case of
disaster. In others of the 3,4O2 active
Chapters, a network of communication
has been formed through which instan-
/ taneous relief may be dispatched TO
4 any part of the United States.
That its work In this field may be
continued with ever greater effective
ness. the American Red Cross is APP
pealng for widespread renewal Of
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