The Sneedville news. (Sneedville, Tenn.) 191?-19??, 1922-10-27
s1,M1,486 A YEARS
DISASTER RELIEF COST
Red Cross Aided Jas, 600 VIC
tins in United States-lossesl
Total $30,OOO,000.

eeSenty-two disasters. With hun,
dreds reported killed and injured anu
more than. I45,OO0 either homeless or
rroi,r,ng assistance. called for en'es;
eeney relief, measures and the *.
pAnditure of sI,441, 1850 By the,
American Red Cr0ss.aduring the fiscal
Snr, ending. June 90 1922. according
-. 4 statement based on the FORTH
cSmink annual report Of 1.-THE Red
Cross. The greatest. toll OF life was
tsAeb by hurricane and tornado,
.shile the overnowing Of rivers. the
hrea king of dams and torrential rains
lreve the greatest number OF people
from their homes. The property hiss
vas estimated st more than $50.
100000 :.
The years. disasters reported is'
Guided twenty-six foods. nineteen tdf'
nadoes: fifteen fires, four epldemics;
two theatre collapses. two shipwrecks
fone an airshlp). and a bridge COZ.
lapse, mine explosion. railway COLL;
zion and a drought. OF the floods In
the United States that at San An
tonic. Texas, caused the greatest
property lbss. $6.OOO,0OO and the High
mark Of fatalities, 100. while the
flood IN the vicinity Of vicksburg and
Hatchea, Miss, forced $1,000 persons
from their homes
A National Calamity
m the Red Cross disaster relief
records there Will probably remain
for many years one calamity which
nearly every state with
sense of horror and OF loss. This was
the distressing collapse Of the roof
OF the Knickerbocker Theatre In
washington. ID. c.. resulting In nine.
ty.slx deaths ana 125 persons injured.
situated in the center Of the beauti-
f,h Northwest residential section this.
motion picture theatre was patronized'
by many persons of prominence both
IN the oficial and civil life OF the Ma!
tionai Capital, whose family and per-
sonaf connections radiated out over
the entire country. The horror was
by a terrific snowstorm
which. though II retarded, did not
block Red Cross relief
Airship Crash Finds Aid at Hand
The crash and destruction of the u.
3. Army's large airship Roma In Wiz
pinia last February with the loss Of 81
ofYicers and men and II injured was
the FIRST disaster If its kind to call for
Red Cross relief In this country. The
suddcnness of the accident tested the
of the organization and
OF the Chapter at Hampton, Va, but
the response was immediate and relief
furnished the survivors. also funds for
TIA. exbSasss- * relatives. Of the dead,
who came ..cc:::i; iiooaag distances &c claim
their own,
IN the years oversee record for aid
rendered by the Red Cross are two
Ares in the Philippines, one In Manila.
which destroyed 1000 homes. with
loss Of SI,5OO.OO0 and 5000 persons
made homeless. the other at Tonic,
which drove 5000 from their dwellings.
In medical relief that was quick and
effective the smallpox epidemic In San
Domingo. which had 4 total OF 22,OOO
cases with 225 deaths In a single day,
tested the readiness Of the Red Cross.
for action, and the same can be said
o. the San Domingo hurricane, which
killed IL persons and reduced the
persons 70 wreckage A
food In San Salvador. with death
Tell of 50 and 1900 refugees, WINS also
efYectuaIly handled by the local Chap
ter ofithe American Red Cross.
AeIIsf Machinery Perfected
The year has seen the further per-
lection Of dfsaster relief administra-
tive measures IN every h~dd Of Amet-
can Red. Cross activity, and that the
work may be carried onto still greater
accomplishments the American Red
Cross Is appealing for widespread re-
newal' OF membership during the an.
nuai Roll Call. to he condtctedF THIS
year from Armistice Day (November
iNi to. and including, Thanksgiving
nav November 30).