The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1921-10-14
$50 DISASTER DEATH
TOLL FOR ONE YEAR
Red Cross Gives $1,87l, 900 Re-
lief When $4,000 Families
Are Made Homeless.

Forty-three disasters, resulting In
the death In the United States Of $50
persons and the injury OF $500 called
FOR emergency relief measures and
the expenditure Of S1,s71,000 by the
American Red Cross during the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1927, gays an
announcement based upon the forth
coming annual report Of the Red Cross
These disasters caused property dam
age estimated ut $3O0O0,000, affected
sixtyseycn communities and rendered
$1,000 families homeless.
The years disasters were OF vary
Ing types, including several which pre-
uously had never been thought Of
as falling within that classified.
ton. The Red Cross furnished
relief in seventeen fires OF magnitude,
Ave foods, seven tornadoes or cy
clones, one devastating storm, three
explosions, including the one in Wall
street; one building accident twJ
typhoid epdemics, the most serious be
ing that at Salem, Ohio, which af'
fected 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
Bv 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
a 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 adninistra-
ton Of relief In its hands.
IN response to appeals from Prcs!-
dent Harding, Governor Shoup and
other governors of western states AMI
through local chapters of the Red
Cross and other community Organiza
tons, philosophical citizens brought
the total contributed for Pueblo's re-
Mobilization to more than $325,000,
The terrible havoc wrought by the
food waters is matter Of record.
More than 1900 homes were affected
ana 1851 persons were left homeless.
Estimates of 100000 as an absolute
minimum for rehabilitation were made
by Red Cross officials in charge Of the
relief work
Fast WcrIe In Wall Street
The Wan street explosion was n0ta-
Bile 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 to assist local forces
in directing their own efforts.
In decided contrast with the pre-
vious year, only one tornado assumed
the proportions of a major disaster.
This occurred on April 10, in the Dor
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 so much rural territory as
to make necessary large number OF
relief workers.
The famine in China, necessitatin%
relief expenditures totalling more than
81, 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-
ton of disaster relief measures. an in
creaslng effectiveness on the part of
the Red Cross to deal with emergen-
cics was manifested during the past
year. In 32S Chapters of the Amer-
can Red Cross there have been formed
special committees to survey the re-
sources Of their respective conmuni-
ties and to be prepared in case of
disaster. In others of the 3,402 active
Chapters, a network of communication
has been formed through which instan.
taneous relief may be dispatched to
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
peallng for widespread renewal of
membership during it's Annual Roll
Can, to be conducted this year from
November IL to ~.