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Evening Capital Domestic News June 1, 1889
Annapolis, Anne Arundel, Maryland
What is this article about?
Reports reaching Greensburg say hundreds of lives were lost at Johnstown, houses carried away bodily, and 85 persons seen floating past New Florence on driftwood; all buildings along the Conemaugh between New Florence and Johnstown were swept away.
Quality green show the numbers
Measured from the scan
— how cleanly the OCR engine read the characters
- Mean ink quality
- 99.0% The length-weighted average confidence across the OCR lines — the mean of exactly the per-line scores whose tails the two figures below report. Typical is 99%.
- Illegible ink
- 0.0% Text sitting in OCR-detected lines that scored below 80% confidence — very shaky reads. Weighted by line length, so one long bad line counts for more than a short one.
- Uncertain ink
- 0.0% Text in lines that scored 80–90% — somewhat shaky reads.
- Matches source
- 99.06% How closely the served text matches the raw OCR of the same boxes, letter by letter, after collapsing spacing and case. This measures agreement, not correctness: the OCR is often wrong and the extractor corrects it, so 100% does not mean perfect, and a low figure usually means poor scan text was rewritten rather than that text was lost (length vs source shows loss).
- Length vs source
- 99.69% Below 100% means text was dropped from the OCR; above means text was added to make it read.
Assembled by the extraction model
— whether the stitched-together text holds up; catches layout and segmentation errors, which the scores above cannot see
- Transcription confidence
- 95.0% (typical 96%) How cleanly the extractor could assemble what it was given. Low here with clean ink scores points at layout analysis — the characters were read correctly but grouped or ordered wrongly.
- Comprehension
- 95.0% Whether the piece reads coherently start to finish. Can stay high while transcription confidence drops, when only part of the component is affected.
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Full Text
A Report via Greensburg.
GREENSBURG, Pa., June 1.—Reports from Johnstown are to the effect that hundreds of lives have been lost. Houses have been carried away bodily. People fortunate enough to escape are fleeing to the mountains. Eighty-five persons were seen floating past a point near New Florence clinging to driftwood.
All the buildings along the Conemaugh between New Florence and Johnstown have been carried away. The railroad towers have been abandoned by the telegraph operators. The Covetown and New Florence bridges have been destroyed.
It is stated that the roofs of only two houses in Johnstown are visible above the water.
GREENSBURG, Pa., June 1.—Reports from Johnstown are to the effect that hundreds of lives have been lost. Houses have been carried away bodily. People fortunate enough to escape are fleeing to the mountains. Eighty-five persons were seen floating past a point near New Florence clinging to driftwood.
All the buildings along the Conemaugh between New Florence and Johnstown have been carried away. The railroad towers have been abandoned by the telegraph operators. The Covetown and New Florence bridges have been destroyed.
It is stated that the roofs of only two houses in Johnstown are visible above the water.
What sub-type of article is it?
Disaster
Weather
Death Or Funeral
What keywords are associated?
Johnstown Flood
New Florence
Conemaugh
Lives Lost
Greensburg
Where did it happen?
Greensburg, Pennsylvania
Domestic News Details
Primary Location
Greensburg, Pennsylvania
Event Date
June 1
Outcome
hundreds of lives reportedly lost; buildings and bridges destroyed; survivors fleeing to mountains