Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1922-10-14

Seventy-two disasters, with Hun
dreds reported killed and injured, and
more than $4,000 either homeless or
requiring assistance, called for emer-
gency relief measures and the ex-
penditure of S1,441 ,4S6.36 by the
American Red Cross during the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1922, according
to a statement based on the forth
coming annual report Of the Red
Cross. The greatest toll of life was
taken. e-by hurricane and tornado,
while the overlooking 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
Guided twenty-six- floods, nineteen tor
nadoes, fifteen fires, four epidemics.
two theatre collapses, two shipwrecks
Zone an airship), and a bridge col
lapse. mine explosion, railway COLI
sion. and a drought. OF the floods in
the United States that at San An
tonic, Texas, caused the greatest
property loss, S6,000O0O and the high
mark of fatalities, 100, while the
food in the vicinity of VicksDurg and
Natchez, Miss, forced $1,000 persons
from their homes.
A National Calamity
In the Red Cross disaster relief
records there will probably remain
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, D. 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
by 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 a terrific snowstorm
which. though it retarded, did not
block Red Cross relief.
Alrship Crash Finds Aid at Hand
The crash and destruction Of the o.
9. 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
prepared ess of the organization and
of the Chapter at Hampton, Va, but
the response was immediate and relief
furnished the survivors, also funds for
the expenA les of relatives of the dead,
who came from long distances to claim
their own.
In the years oversee record Tor aid
rendered By the Red Cross are two
fires in the philippines, one in Manila,
which destroyed 1000 homes, with a
loss of $1,5eO,00O and 5000 persons
made homels IS, the other at Tonic
which drove 1000 from their dwellings
In medical relief that was quick and
effective the smallpox epidemic in San
Domingo, which had total of 22OOO
cases with 226 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 peBons and reduced the
homes Of 1872 Aersons to wreckage. A
flood in San Salvador, with death
toll of 80 and 1000 refugees, was also
effectually handed by the local Chap
ter of the American Red Cross.
Relief Machinery Perfected
The year has seen the further per
lection of dfsaSer relief administra
tive measures mevery field Of Ameri
can Red Cross activity, and that the
work may be carried on tc still greater
accomplishments the American Red
Cross is appealfn, for widespread re
newal of member,hip during the an
nual Roll Call, ltd be conducted this
year from ArmistiFe Day November
III to. and inclI1ing, Thanksgiving
Day November 80,
Mr.. G. c. Cox was in Paint