The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1921-10-21
$50 DISASTER DEATH
TOLL FOR ONE YEAR
Red Cross Gives 81 $4,000 Re.
lief When $4,000 Families
Are Made Homeless.

the death in the United States of $50
persons and the injury OF $500 called
for emergency relief measures and
the expenditure of Sl,s71,000 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 S30.000,000, affected
sixty-sevcn communities and rendered
$4,000 families homeless.
The years disasters were of vary.
ing types, including several which pre-
viously had never been thought OF
as failing within that classified
ton. The Red Cross furnished
relief in seventeen fires of magnitude
five Hoods, seven tornadoes or cy-
clones, one devastating storm, three
explosions, including the one in Wall
street one building accident twJ
typhoid cpidemlcS, the most serious he
Ing that AT Salem. ohio. which NJ
fected 9 per cent of the population
one smallpox epidemic, In the republic
Of Haiti one train wreck, the race riot
at Tulsa, Ollln. the famine in China
emergency relief In famine among the
Indians OF Alaska. the graSshoppei
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 food 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, appro.
ciating the long and successful expert
ence Of the Red Cross IN organizing
disaster relief work, placed Tie en-
tire responsibility for the administra
ton of relief IN It's hands.
In response Ia appeals from Pres.
dent Harding. Governor Shcup and
other governors of western states and
through loca, chapters of the Red
Cross and other community organlza Z,
tions. philosophical citizens brought /
the total Contributed for pueb'o's re /
Mobilization To more than S}25.OOO.
The terrible havoc wrought by the I
food waters l. matter NJ record. !
More than 1900 homes were affected .
and 1881 persons were left homeless. .
Estimates NJ $500 600 rs an absolute +
minimum FOR rehabilitation we're made
by Red cross officials IN charge Of tn
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 after the disaster occurred. The
race riot AZ 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
ers, nurses and n 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 n major disaster.
This occurred on April IL. In the bor-
der sections OF Texas and Arkansas
with the city ~ TeNarkana as the
center. The significant feature of this
disaster relief work was the fact that
II covered 50 much rural territory as
70 make necessary large number II
relief workers.
The famine IN China, neccssita;ing /
relief expenditures totalling more tAan
81 100000 hy the American Red Cross
was by far the most serious OF The
foreign disasters In which the Red
Cross gave aid.
Builds Up It's Machinery
In connection with the admin.Stra-
ton of disaster relief measures. an in
creasiug effectiveness on the part OF
the Red Cross to deal with cmcrgen.
cies was manifested during the past
year. In nos Chapters of the Nmor'
ran Red Cross there have been formed
special committees Ia survey the re
sources uf their respective communi-
ties and 60 bc prepared In ease ~
disaster. In others az The 3, '04 HctiVe
Chapters. e u"tWorl. Of comiaun.o alton
has been formed through which iiistan.
taneous relief may he dis Ltchcd 10
any par; If tie United STAGES
That its wo.k IN thi- field may b.
continued we ever greater effective
ness. the American i.cl Cross - ap.
peallng for widespread rcnrwa! E
during lis Annual Roll
Call, to lee conducted his year ron