Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1922-10-19
$1,41,486 A YEARS
DISASTER RELIEF COST
Red Cross Aided $4,000 Vic
tins in United States-LOsSes
! Total $30,000,0OO.

Seventy-two disasters, with hun
dreds reported killed and injured, and
more than 145,0O0 either homeless or
requiring assistance, called for emer-
gency relief measures and the ex-
penditure of $1.441, ,4S636 by the
American Red Cross during the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1922, according
to statement based on the forth
coming annual report Of the Red
Cross. The greatest toll Of life was
taken by hurricane and tornado.
while the overfiowing of rivers, the
breaking Of dams and torrential rains
drove the greatest number Of people
from their homes. The property loss
was estimated at more than $780,
100000.
The years disasters reported In
rluded twenty-six floods, nineteen tor
nadoes, fifteen fires, four epldemics,
two theatre cOllapses, two shlpwrecks
Zone an airship), and a bridge col
lapse, mine explosion, railway cOlli-
sion, and a drought. OF the floods in
the United States that at San An
tonic, Texas, caused the greatest
property loss, S6,0OO,OOO and the high
mark Of fatalities, 100, while the
flood in the vicinity of vicksburg and
Natchez, Miss, forced 31,OOO persons
from their homes.
A National Calamity
. IN the Red Cross disaster relief
thara yIyilI nrnhahIr tn
for many years one calamity which
touched nearly every state with a
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-six deaths and 125 persons injured.
Situated in the center of the beauti.
ful Northwest residential section, this
motion picture theatre was patronized
ny many persons Of prominence both
In the official and civil life OF the Ma
tional Capital, whose family and per-
sonal connections radiated out over
the entire country. The horror was
intensified by terrific snowstorm
which, though 1t retarded, did not
block Red Cross relief.
Airship Crash Finds Aid at Hand
The crash and destruction of the U.
s. Army's large airship Roma in Vir-
ginia last February with the loss of "a
officers and men and II injured was
the first disaster of its kind to call for
Red Cross relief in this country. The
suddennesS of the accident tested the
preparedness of the organization and
Df the Chapter at Hampton, Va, but
the response was immediate and relief
furnished the survivors. also funds for
the expenses of relatives of the dead,
who came from long distances to claim
their own.
In the years oversea record fer aid
rendered by the Red Cross are 'wo
fres in the Philippines, one In Manila,
which destroyed 1000 homes, with
loss of s1,50O.0OO and 5000 persons
made homeless. the other at Tonic,
which drove 5000 from thair dwellings.
In medical relief that was quick and
effective the smallpox epidemic in San
Domingo, which had Il .Otal of 22,OCO
rases with 225 deaths in a single day,
tested the readiness of the Red Cross
for action, and the same can be said
of the San Domingo hurricane, which
killed u persons and reduced the
homes of 1S2 persons to wreckage.
flood in San Salvador, with a death
toll Of 80 and 1000 refugees, was also
effectually handled by the local Chap
ter of the American Red Cross.
Relief Machinery Perfected
The year has seen the further per-
fection of disaster relief adminlstra-
tive measures in every field of Ameri-
can Red Cross activity, and that the
work may be carried on to still greater
accomplishments the American Red
Cross is appealing for widespread re-
pewal of membership during the an
pual Roll Call, to be conducted this
year from Armstice Day (November
III to, and including, Thanksgiving
Day (November S0l.
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