The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-11-06
DISASTER DEATH
tToLL FOR ONE YEAR
I'd Cross Gives S1,871,00o Re-
lief When $4,000 Families
Are Made Homeless.

Forty three disasters, resulting In
he death ia the United States Of $50
ersous and the injury Of $500 called
or emergency relief measures and
he expenditure Of Sl,S71 900 by the
merican Red Cross during the fiscal
ear ending June 10 1921, says an
announcement based upon the ftrth-
omlng annual report Of the Red Cross
'hese disasters caused property dam
ge estimated at 100000 900, affected
lrty-seven communities aud rendered
B, 900 families homeless
The years disasters were Of vary
ng types, including several which pre-
iously hsd' never been thought OF
hs falling within that classifica
lion. The Red Cross furnished
relief in seventeen fires OF magnitude
live foods, seven tornadoes or cy-
rlOnes, one devastating storm, three
Explosions, including the one in Wall
etreet; one building accident, two
Typhoid epidemics, the most serious be-
bng that at Salem, Ohio, which af'
rected per cent Of the population
pns smallpox epidemic, in the republic
cf Haiti one train wreck, the race riot
ut Tulsa, Okla. 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 tn,
period covered by the Red Cross re
port was the Pueblo food early ir
June, 1891. The rehabilitation prob
lem confronting the Red Cross II
Pusolo was one OF the most Difficult
In recent years. When the frst' new
Of the horror was dashed Throughout
the country, the American Red Cros
mnonAl Headquarters responded witt
y grant of 100000 for relief work
FA0vernof Shoup Of Colorado, appre
k.iating the long and successful expert
ence Of the Red Cross In organizing
uisaster relief work, placed the en-
tire responsibility for the sdministra
tion Of relief In its hands
In response t0 appeals from Pres
dsnt Harding, Governor Shoup ap
other governors Of western states an
through local chapters OF the Re
Cron and other community orgaDiza
tlons. publlc-spirited citizens brougE
the total contributed for Pueblos RI
hsbllitatlon TO more than SS250OO.
The terrible havoc wrought by til
hood waters is a m3tter Of recort
More than 300 homes were affecte
land 1881 persons were left homeless
Estimates OF S5O0,0O0 as an absolui
0nimum for rehabilitation were mad
v& Red Cross officials in charge of II
r0Ief work.
- Fast Work In Wall Street
~The Wall street explosion was not
fle in that relief workers OF the Re
kSross were on the scene twenty null
utes after the disaster occurred. III
race riot at Tulsa also was unique
uisss ster relief annals In that outsit
OF q small emergency relief fund 60
tributed by the Red Cross, the on
relief measures outside the city co
sisted Of the service OF social wor
ers. nurses and trained executl'
whose object WAS TO assist local fore
in directing their own efforts.
In decided contrast with the pr
/ yious year. only one tornado ASSUME
! the proportions OF major disast'
This occurred on April 10, in the be
der sections Of Texas and Arkans
With the city Of Texarkana as q
0twenter The significant feature " u
disa ster relief work was the fact tn
II covered So much rural territory
to make necessary large number
,Iebef workers
The famine in China. necesstatl
srsiief expenditures t0talling more til
t,Sl. 700. 900 by the American Red Gro
j,was by far the most serious OF I
foreign disasters in which the r
s,rsss gave aid.
Builds Up It's Machinery
IN connection with the admlnistl
ktion Of disaster relief measures, an
Increasing effectiveness ON the part
lfuhe Red Cross TO deal with emerge
pries was manifested during the p'
year. In S2s Chapters of the Anne
can Red Cross there have been form
special committees 10 survey the
sources Of their respective commu
ties and TO be prepared In case
disaster. In others OF the 3,f02 act
Chapters, u network Of communicati
has been formed through which inst
taneous relief may be dispatched
Nany part Of the United Stntes.
That It's work in this field may
7 lrontinued with ever greater eifectl
ness, the American Red Cross Is
pealing for widespread renewal
membership during its Annual u
Call. to be conducted this year fr