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Evening Capital Domestic News June 1, 1889
Annapolis, Anne Arundel, Maryland
What is this article about?
A deluge from a bursting reservoir nearly wiped out Johnstown, Pa.; a courier reports 1,500 lives lost, several villages swept away, and widespread damage in western Pennsylvania and Virginia.
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
- 97.81% 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
- 100.68% 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
- 97.0% (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 DREADFUL DELUGE
A Bursting Reservoir Floods a Populous Valley.
JOHNSTOWN NEARLY WIPED OUT.
Fifteen Hundred Lives Reported Lost in Western Pennsylvania.
SEVERAL VILLAGES SWEPT AWAY.
The Roofs of Only Two Houses Visible Above the Water at Johnstown—The Rivers Full of Floating Dead—Driftwood Forty Feet High—Wires Down and Meager Reports Received Through Couriers—The Floods Are Destructive Throughout Western Pennsylvania and Extend to Virginia Where Much Damage Is Reported.
BLAIRSVILLE INTERSECTION, Pa., June 1.—A reliable courier just arrived from Johnstown states that 1,500 lives are lost.
A Bursting Reservoir Floods a Populous Valley.
JOHNSTOWN NEARLY WIPED OUT.
Fifteen Hundred Lives Reported Lost in Western Pennsylvania.
SEVERAL VILLAGES SWEPT AWAY.
The Roofs of Only Two Houses Visible Above the Water at Johnstown—The Rivers Full of Floating Dead—Driftwood Forty Feet High—Wires Down and Meager Reports Received Through Couriers—The Floods Are Destructive Throughout Western Pennsylvania and Extend to Virginia Where Much Damage Is Reported.
BLAIRSVILLE INTERSECTION, Pa., June 1.—A reliable courier just arrived from Johnstown states that 1,500 lives are lost.
What sub-type of article is it?
Disaster
Weather
Death Or Funeral
What keywords are associated?
Johnstown Flood
Deluge
Reservoir
Pennsylvania
Disaster
Where did it happen?
Johnstown, Pa.
Domestic News Details
Primary Location
Johnstown, Pa.
Event Date
June 1
Outcome
1,500 lives reported lost; several villages swept away; extensive damage.