The Red Cross: Some Facts Concerning Clara Barton’s Work
Booklet
By Walter P. Phillips
Bridgeport, Conn.
1903

Page 7 of 8


“and Mrs. Fannie B. Ward, - Cuba and Galveston. During the period of its existence there have been the following occasions in which the Red Cross agencies have been invoked – calamitous disasters too far-reaching in their effect for local relief: Michigan forest fires, 1881; Mississippi floods, 1882-83; Mississippi cyclone, 1883; Balkan War, (money sent), 1883; Ohio and Mississippi floods, 1884; Texas famine, 1885; Charleston earthquake, 1886; Mt. Vernon, Ill., cyclone, 1888; Florida yellow fever, 1888; Johnstown disaster, 1889; Russian famine, 1891-92; Pomeroy, Iowa, cyclone, 1893, Couth Carolina Islands tidal wave, 1893-94; Armenian massacres, 1896; Cuban reconcentrados, 1898; Spanish – American war, 1899; Galveston disaster, 1900.” 

Clara Barton National Historic Site, CLBA 4497