Connecticut western news., 1921-10-13
$50 DISASTER DEATH
 TOLL FOR ONE YEAR
Red Cross Gives S1,871,00O Re- lief When 1000 Families
 Are Made Homeless.

FOrty-three disasters, resulting In the death in the United States of $50 persons and the injury of 250O called for emergency relief measures and the expenditure of $1,871 ,0O0 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,OOO00O, affected sixty communities and rendered 65, 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- fected g 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 the country, the American Red Cross National Headquarters responded with | grant of $105,OOO 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 administra- tion of relief in it's hands.
 In response to appeals from Prest- dent Harding, Governor Shoup and other governors of western states and i IllIOuSu lOCdI CIldIJIClS Ol lIlC LNCd Cross and other community Organiza- tions, public-spirited citizens brought the total contributed for PueblO's re- mobilization to more than $325,00O.
 The terrible havoc wrought by the flood waters Is a matter of record More than 2,30O homes were affected and 7,351 persons were left homeless Estimates of $5OO,00O 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 Gross 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
 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 a 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 so much rural territory as
 to make necessary a large number of relief workers.
 The famine in China, necessitating relief expenditures tOtalling more than $1 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
 tion of disaster relief measures, an in creasing effectiveness on the part ot 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 special committees to survey the re { sources of their respective communi ties and to be prepared In case O1 | disaster. Tn others of the 3,402 active J Chapters, a network of communication \ has been formed through which instan ! taneous relief may be dispatched t { any part of the United States. That its work in this field may bt continued with ever greater effective ness, the American Red Cross Is ap pealing for widespread renewal O membership during its Annual Rol Call, to be conducted this year iron