Williams news., 1921-10-21
$50 DISASTER DEATH :.
 TOLL FOR ONE YEAR
Red Cross Gives S1,871,00o Re- lief When 5000 Families
 Are Made Homeless.


 the death in the United States of $50 persons and the injury of 2,5OO called for emergency relief measures and the expenditure of $1 .ST1 900 by the American Red Cross during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, says an announcement based upon the forth coming annual report of the Red Cross These disasters caused property dam age estimated at $3O.OOO,OOO, affected SiNty-seven communities and rendered 1000 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- tion. 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 epidemicS, the most serious be- ing that at Salem, Ohio, which af- fecteJ 9 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 hp no Cross National Headquarters responded with a grant of S1O5,OOO for relief work. Governor ShQup 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 through local chapters of the Red Cross and other community organiza- tions, philosophical citizens brought the total contributed for Pueblo's re mobilization to more than $325, 900.
 The terrible havoc wrought by the flood waters is a matter of record. More than 2,3OO homes were affected and 7,351 persons were left homeless. Estimates of $:,OO,OGO as an absolute minimum for rehabilitation were made by Red Cross officials in charge of the 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- 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 | 1t covered much rural territory as | to make necessary a large number of l relief workers.
 The famine in China, necesSitating | relief expenditures totalling more than i S1 ,OOO. GOO by the American Red Cross | was by far the most serious Of the | ulSaSCeTS ID WHICH the 1l0u Cross gave aid.
 Builds Up It's Machinery
 In connection with the administra- 1 tfon of disaster relief measures, an in- creasing effectiveness the part of | the Red Cross to deal with emergen- cies was manifested during the past | year. In BPS Chapters of the Ameri- can Red Cross there have been formed l special committees to survey the re-, sources of their respective communi- ties and to be prepared in case of | disaster. In others of the 3, ,4O2 Active a network of communication has been formed through which instan- taneous. relief may be dispatched to E any part of the United States.
 That it's work in this field may be continued with ever greater effective ness, the American Red Cross is ap- pealing for widespread renewal of during it's Annual Roll Call. to be conducted. this year from November II to 24.