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The Glacier Reporter Domestic News October 2, 1953
Browning, Glacier, Montana
What is this article about?
Leon Earl Bliss, 39, of Lewistown was instantly killed when his loaded truck and semi-trailer left Highway No. 2 west of Browning and hit a tree; cause may have been speed or driver fatigue.
Quality green show the numbers
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
- 0.0% Text in lines that scored 80–90% — somewhat shaky reads.
- Matches source
- 98.46% 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
- 100.85% 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
- 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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TRUCK WRECK CLAIMS LIFE OF VALIER MAN TUESDAY
Leon Earl Bliss, 39, a young man born and raised in the Valier community, but now married and making his home in Lewistown, was instantly killed on Tuesday night of this week on Highway No. 2, 17 miles west of Browning and about two miles west of Dusty's Inn when a heavily loaded truck and semi-trailer left the grade, careened along the borrow pit for some distance and then smashed into a tree.
Coroner C. Murl Beck was notified of the accident, and with Jack W. Rappe went to the scene of the disaster, arriving only a short time after the occurrence.
After a careful examination it was concluded that the accident was caused by possibly too much speed, considering the road and the heavy load. There were two curves in the road not far from where the truck was found, and it may have been that the driver dozed for an instant and lost control.
Bliss was driving for the Great Falls Builders, and had on a heavy load of lumber, which he was bringing back from the Flathead. When the truck hit the tree, the heavy load on the trailer was forced up over the cab by the impact, and Bliss was caught in the cab, probably being killed instantly. He had a broken neck and other bruises and lacerations. No inquest was deemed necessary.
Bliss was a veteran of World War II. He was raised in the Valier community, being of a large family.
The body was taken to Conrad, and funeral services will be held in Valier the latter part of this week. Mrs. Bliss came, and accompanied the body to Conrad.
Leon Earl Bliss, 39, a young man born and raised in the Valier community, but now married and making his home in Lewistown, was instantly killed on Tuesday night of this week on Highway No. 2, 17 miles west of Browning and about two miles west of Dusty's Inn when a heavily loaded truck and semi-trailer left the grade, careened along the borrow pit for some distance and then smashed into a tree.
Coroner C. Murl Beck was notified of the accident, and with Jack W. Rappe went to the scene of the disaster, arriving only a short time after the occurrence.
After a careful examination it was concluded that the accident was caused by possibly too much speed, considering the road and the heavy load. There were two curves in the road not far from where the truck was found, and it may have been that the driver dozed for an instant and lost control.
Bliss was driving for the Great Falls Builders, and had on a heavy load of lumber, which he was bringing back from the Flathead. When the truck hit the tree, the heavy load on the trailer was forced up over the cab by the impact, and Bliss was caught in the cab, probably being killed instantly. He had a broken neck and other bruises and lacerations. No inquest was deemed necessary.
Bliss was a veteran of World War II. He was raised in the Valier community, being of a large family.
The body was taken to Conrad, and funeral services will be held in Valier the latter part of this week. Mrs. Bliss came, and accompanied the body to Conrad.
What sub-type of article is it?
Accident
Death Or Funeral
Transportation
What keywords are associated?
Truck Wreck
Highway Accident
Leon Earl Bliss
Fatal Crash
Great Falls Builders
What entities or persons were involved?
Leon Earl Bliss
Coroner C. Murl Beck
Jack W. Rappe
Where did it happen?
Highway No. 2, 17 Miles West Of Browning, Montana
Domestic News Details
Primary Location
Highway No. 2, 17 Miles West Of Browning, Montana
Event Date
Tuesday Night Of This Week
Key Persons
Leon Earl Bliss
Coroner C. Murl Beck
Jack W. Rappe
Outcome
bliss killed instantly with broken neck and bruises; no inquest deemed necessary; body taken to conrad, funeral in valier.