Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1922-11-03
$1,441,4S6 A YEARS
 DISASTER RELIEF COST
Red Cross Aided 145,000 vic- tins in United States-Losses
 Total $30,O00,O


 dreds reported killed and injured, and
 more than 145.OOO either homeless or requiring assistance, called for emer.
 gency relief measures. and the ex-
 penditure of $1,441, ,4S6.38 by the
 American Red Cross during the fiscal year ending June 30, 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 overflowing 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 $SO.- 100000. ..,'.' N ".
 The years disasters reported h. cluded twenty-six floods, nineteen tor nadoes, fifteen fires, four epidemics, two theatre cOllapses, two shipwrecks Gone an airship). and bridge col lapse, mine explosion, railway. cOlli- sion. and drought. Of the floods in the United States that at San An tonic, Texas, caused the greatest property loss, $6.OOO, 900 and the high mark of fatalities. 100, while the flood in the vicinity of Yickshurg and Natchez, Miss, forced 31,0OO 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 sedse 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- full Northwest residential section. this motion picture theatre was patronized by many persons of prominence both in the official and civil life of the Ma 5 tional Capital, whose family and per sonal connections radlated 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 34 officers and men and II injured was the first disaster of It's kind to call for Red Cross relief in this country. The of the accident tested the of the organization and of the Chapter at Hampton, Va. but f the response was immediate and relief | furnished the survivors, also funds for the expenses of relatives of the dead, l who came from long distances to claim their own. ..,t as,~ s
 In the years oversea record for aid | rendered by the Red Cross are two ires in the Philippines, one in Manila, which destroyed 1000 homes, with a loss of $1.500.0OO and 5000 persons made homeless, the other at Tonic, which drove 5000 from their dwellings. In medical relief that was quick spdr affective the smallpox epidemic in San Domingo, which had a total of 22,000 ,ases with 225 deaths in single day, :ested the readiness of the Red Cross Tor action, and the same can be said ,f the San Domingo hurricane, which Iilled F persons and reduced the lomes of 1S2 persons to wreckage. A food in San Salvador, with a death oil of 50 and 2,000 refugees, was also ffectually handled by the local Chap CT of the American Red Cross.
 Relief Machinery Perfected II The year has seen the further per ection of disaster relief administra. i've measures In every field of Ameri- an Red Cross activity, and that the york may be carried on to still greater the American Red ross Is appealing for widespread re- ewal of membership during the an ual Roll Call. to be conducted this ear from Armistice Day November 1) to, and including, Thanksgiving Jay tNovember 30). N