The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1921-11-04
y DISASTER DEATH
TOLL FOR ONE YEAR.
Red Cross Gives 81, S7l, O0oRs
lief When 1000 families
\ Are Made Homeless.

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Forty-three disasters, resulting In
the death in the United States Of S5s
persons and the injury Of 2,b00 called
for emergency relief measures and
The expenditure Of 1851 900 by the
american Red Cross during the fiscal
year ending June 30. 1921, says an
announcement based upon the forth
fomiDg annual report Of the Red Cross
These disasters caused property dam.
|ge estimated at s3o,00o,0O0, affected
.lxty-seven communities and rendered
y, 900 families homeless.
The years disasters were Of vary.
ing types. including several which pre-.
yiously had never been thought Of
as falling within that classified.
zion. The Red Cross furnished
relief In seventeen Ares Of magnitude,
tiye foods, seven tornadoes or cy-
clones, one devastating storm, three
explosions, Including the one In Wall
I, street; one building accident. tvs
typhoid epidemics, the most serious be.
ing that at Salem, Ohio. which af
fesed 9 per cent Of the population;
one smallpox epidemic. In the republic
of Haiti one train wreck, the race riot
At Tulsn, Okla the famine In China,
emergency relief In famine among the
Indians OF Alnska, the grasshopper
plague In North Dakota and an earth
Quake in Italy.
: Pueblo Most ssfisis
81 BY FAR the most severe OF the dis.
ahters In the United States during the
period covered by the Red Cross re.
Part was the Pueblo flood early III
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
81 the horror was flashed throughout
the country, the American Red Cross
NATIONAL Headquarters responded with
grant OF siO5,000 for relief work
Governor Shoup OF Colorado, appre.
ainting the long and successful expert.
enct Of the Red Gross In organizing
DISASTER relief work. placed the en-.
Tire responsibility for the admlnlstra-
lion OF relief In Its hands.
IN response 10 appeais from Pres!.
lent Harding, Governor Shoup and
thef governors Of western suites and
fsNlpN local ckapters Of the He'd
~ dtlI 6snei community organize.
ns, pnhlictbifit6d citizens brought
total contributed Tor Pueblois re.
iiitatIou to more tbnn ss25.00O
ne terrible havoc wrought BY the
waters Is Q matter " record.
tn 1900 homes were 9ifscted
1897 persons were left hofneftss.
mates OF $500 600 as an absofhts
mum for rehabilitation were made
"a Cross officials in charge 81 thu
work.
Fast Work In Wall Street
Wall street explosion was ncta
that relief workers OF the Red 1
we're on the scene twenty min.
lter the disaster occurred. The
LOT at Tulsa also was unique In
relief annals in that outside
'nli emergency relief fund con.
By the Ped Cross, the only
measures outside the city con.
|f the service OF social work.
'tes and trained executive
meet was T. assist local forces
ing their own efforts.
cided contrast with the pre-
mr.. only one tornado assumed
portions Of a major disaster.
curred on April 10. In the Dor
Ions OF Texas and Arkansas
e city Of Texarkana rs the
The significant feature OF this
relief work was the fact that
d 50 much rural territory as
Necessary a large number Of
fkers. +
mine In China. necessitating
endltures totalling more than
by the American Red Cross
ar the most serious Of the !
isasters In which the Red
z aid. q
Ids Up lts Machinery
sction with the administer
aster relief measures, an In
nectiveness on the part OF !
ross 10 deal with emergen- i
Manifested during the past
% Chapters Of the Ameri- I
PISS there have been formed
!. /. !
lmittees to survey the re
their respective commune
be prepared In case OF
others Of the 3,402 active :
network of communication !,
med through which lnstan- 4
ef may be dispatched to d
he United States
FORK in this field inay be 81
|th ever greater effective
erican Red Cross is APP Z
widespread renewal Of n
during It's Annual Roll ],
bnducted this year from =
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