The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1922-12-02
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s1,441,l0S A YEARS
DISASTER RELIEF COST
2ed Cross Aided $4,000 VIC
Tins in United StatesLl0SSes
Total $50, 900, 900.

Seventy-two disasters. with hun
dreds remrted Killed and injured. and
more than 1i5.tU0 either homeless or
requiring assistance, called for emer-
gency relief measures and the ex-
pendlture of SILL. 4S6.30. 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 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,
OOOOOO.
The years disasters reported In
cuded twenty-six floods. nineteen tor
| nadoes. fifteen fires, four epidemlcs
two theatre collapses, two shipwrecks
| Zone an airship). and a bridge col
lapse. mine explosion, railway COLL
sion. and a drought. OF the floods In
/ the United States that at San An
tonic. Texas. caused the greatest
property loss, S6,0O0.O00 and the high
mark of fatalities. 1OO, while the
food In the vicinity Of vicksburg 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
sense Of horror and Of loss. This was
the distressing collapse Of the roof
Of the Knlckerbocker Theatre In
Washington, d. c., resulting In nine
ty-slx deaths and 1875 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
tlonal 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.
Airshlp Crash Finds AID at Hand
The crash and destruction Of the U.
s. Army's large alrship Roma In Vir-
ginia last February with the loss of 81
officers and men and IL injured was
the first disaster Of Its kind to call for
Red Cross relief In this country. The
suddenness Of the accident tested the
Of hn . a
Of 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 oversee record for aid
rendered by the Red Cross are two
Ares in the Philippines, one In Manila.
which destroyed 1000 homes. with a
loss Of $1.5OO.000 and 5000 persons
made homeless, the other at Tonic.
which drove 1900 from their dwellings.
| In medical relief that was quick and
effective the smallpox epidemic in San
Domingo, which had total Of 1900
cases with 225 deaths in a single day.
rested Ine red4iness VI thc fteu SIoss
for action, and the same can be said
of the San Domingo hurricane. which
killed II persons and reduced the
homes # ls2 persons to wreckage. A
food in San Salvador. with death
toll OF 80 and 1000 refugees, was also
efrectually handled by the local Chap
ter Of the American Red Cross.
Relief Machinery Perfected
The year has seen the further per
lection Of disaster relief administra-
tive measures IN every field Of Ame1-
can Red Cross activity. and that the
work may be carried on to still greater
accomplishments the American Red
Cross IL appealing for widespread re-
newal Of membership during the an
nual Roll Call, to be conducted this
year from Armistlce Day November
11) to. and including. Thanksgiving
Day November 30).