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The Indianapolis Journal Domestic News June 8, 1889
Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana
What is this article about?
Johnstown flood relief efforts continued: Father Smith reported destitute conditions in valley settlements with 70-80 lives lost, a crowd gathered for rations at the depot, and a Masonic relief committee was organized.
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Measured from the scan
— how cleanly the OCR engine read the characters
- Mean ink quality
- 98.0% 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
- 2.4% Text in lines that scored 80–90% — somewhat shaky reads.
- Matches source
- 98.72% 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
- 99.73% Below 100% means text was dropped from the OCR; above means text was added to make it read.
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- Transcription confidence
- 96.0% (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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THE DESTITUTE AND NEEDY.
Residents of the Suburbs Suffering for Food and Clothing.
JOHNSTOWN, Pa., June 7.-Father Smith, pastor of the Catholic Church at Ebensburg, Cambria county, reached here to-day, after a two-days' journey from South Fork. He says the residents of Mineral Point, Coopersville, Dutchtown, East Conemaugh and other small settlements along that valley are in destitute circumstances and are in need of immediate supplies of groceries and clothing. Reports from each of these villages show that between seventy and eighty lives were lost between Woodvale and the hamlet of South Fork.
At the commissary station at the Pennsylvania railroad depot this morning there was considerable activity. A crowd of about one thousand people had gathered about the place after their day's rations. The crowd became so great that the soldiers had to be called up to guard the place until the relief committee was ready to give out the provisions. Several car-loads of clothing arrived this morning, and was to be disposed of as soon as possible. The people were badly in need of clothing, as the weather has been very chilly since Saturday.
The following was issued to-night:
To the Associated Press-A Masonic relief committee has been organized, and solicits aid for distressed Freemasons and their families. Remittances should be made by New York or Pittsburg drafts to the order of Col. John P. Linton, treasurer, or William F. Meyer, secretary.
WM. A. DONALDSON, Chairman
Residents of the Suburbs Suffering for Food and Clothing.
JOHNSTOWN, Pa., June 7.-Father Smith, pastor of the Catholic Church at Ebensburg, Cambria county, reached here to-day, after a two-days' journey from South Fork. He says the residents of Mineral Point, Coopersville, Dutchtown, East Conemaugh and other small settlements along that valley are in destitute circumstances and are in need of immediate supplies of groceries and clothing. Reports from each of these villages show that between seventy and eighty lives were lost between Woodvale and the hamlet of South Fork.
At the commissary station at the Pennsylvania railroad depot this morning there was considerable activity. A crowd of about one thousand people had gathered about the place after their day's rations. The crowd became so great that the soldiers had to be called up to guard the place until the relief committee was ready to give out the provisions. Several car-loads of clothing arrived this morning, and was to be disposed of as soon as possible. The people were badly in need of clothing, as the weather has been very chilly since Saturday.
The following was issued to-night:
To the Associated Press-A Masonic relief committee has been organized, and solicits aid for distressed Freemasons and their families. Remittances should be made by New York or Pittsburg drafts to the order of Col. John P. Linton, treasurer, or William F. Meyer, secretary.
WM. A. DONALDSON, Chairman
What sub-type of article is it?
Disaster
Charity Or Relief
What keywords are associated?
Johnstown Flood Relief
Destitute Residents
Father Smith
Masonic Relief Committee
What entities or persons were involved?
Father Smith
Col. John P. Linton
William F. Meyer
Wm. A. Donaldson
Where did it happen?
Johnstown, Pennsylvania
Domestic News Details
Primary Location
Johnstown, Pennsylvania
Event Date
June 7
Key Persons
Father Smith
Col. John P. Linton
William F. Meyer
Wm. A. Donaldson
Outcome
70-80 lives lost between woodvale and south fork; residents of mineral point, coopersville, dutchtown and east conemaugh destitute; relief supplies being distributed.