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Great Falls Tribune Domestic News June 5, 1889
Great Falls, Cascade, Montana
What is this article about?
The Conemaugh valley was devastated by flooding after the Johnstown reservoir broke; hundreds died and the Johnstown bridge fire killed nearly 100 more.
Quality yellow The extractor was unsure its transcription reads as real language, even though the scan measures clean. 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
- 93.94% 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
- 110.83% 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
- 85.0% (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
- 90.0% 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 Vast Region Submerged.
FLORENCE, Pa., June 2.—The appalling disaster in the history of America has filled the whole valley of the Conemaugh river with ruin and death. Five hundred human lives have been lost here. For more than 24 hours all western Pennsylvania was visited by the most violent rain storm in 50 years. Every creek became a rushing river and every rivulet a roaring torrent. The flood at Johnstown culminated in an awful catastrophe. The great reservoir 18 miles north of the town broke about 5 o'clock in the evening, and the immense volume of water rushed down to the city, carrying with it death and destruction. The flood reached Johnstown about 6.
The roaring, rushing torrent, dashing madly down through Pack, bearing with it the most terrible destruction that ever visited the romantic valley of the Conemaugh. When night came on and darkness settled over the mountains the horror of the scene increased. Above the roar of the flood could be heard the piteous appeals of unfortunates as they were swept down the stream. Suddenly a brilliant illumination lit up the sky, adding to the horror that filled the whole country. The light came from the burning wrecks of buildings piled upon the Johnstown bridge, and here nearly 100 persons lost their lives in the flames.
All estimates as to the number of the dead are necessarily based more or less upon conjecture, but all reports agree the disaster is absolutely without a parallel in the history of this country.
FLORENCE, Pa., June 2.—The appalling disaster in the history of America has filled the whole valley of the Conemaugh river with ruin and death. Five hundred human lives have been lost here. For more than 24 hours all western Pennsylvania was visited by the most violent rain storm in 50 years. Every creek became a rushing river and every rivulet a roaring torrent. The flood at Johnstown culminated in an awful catastrophe. The great reservoir 18 miles north of the town broke about 5 o'clock in the evening, and the immense volume of water rushed down to the city, carrying with it death and destruction. The flood reached Johnstown about 6.
The roaring, rushing torrent, dashing madly down through Pack, bearing with it the most terrible destruction that ever visited the romantic valley of the Conemaugh. When night came on and darkness settled over the mountains the horror of the scene increased. Above the roar of the flood could be heard the piteous appeals of unfortunates as they were swept down the stream. Suddenly a brilliant illumination lit up the sky, adding to the horror that filled the whole country. The light came from the burning wrecks of buildings piled upon the Johnstown bridge, and here nearly 100 persons lost their lives in the flames.
All estimates as to the number of the dead are necessarily based more or less upon conjecture, but all reports agree the disaster is absolutely without a parallel in the history of this country.
What sub-type of article is it?
Disaster
Weather
Death Or Funeral
What keywords are associated?
Johnstown Flood
Conemaugh Valley
Reservoir Break
Bridge Fire
Flood Deaths
Where did it happen?
Florence, Pennsylvania (Conemaugh Valley / Johnstown)
Domestic News Details
Primary Location
Florence, Pennsylvania (Conemaugh Valley / Johnstown)
Event Date
June 2
Outcome
five hundred lives lost; nearly 100 died in flames at johnstown bridge; widespread ruin.