Name not reported

Newspapers reported in February 1871 that a group of about five hundred mounted men broke into the jail in Columbia, South Carolina, and took out Black people held there. The Evening Telegraph reported that eight people were taken out and killed, and said the men were supposed to be Ku Klux Klan members. The Sunbury American reported that ten Black prisoners were taken out and that eight of them were killed on the spot.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Evening Telegraph reports that about five hundred mounted men, supposed to be Ku Klux Klan members, broke into the Columbia, South Carolina, jail and killed eight people they took from it.

Reported by: The Evening Telegraph (reporters).

Sources (2)

• The Evening Telegraph, February 15, 1871, page 4 The Evening Telegraph, February 15, 1871
• Sunbury American, February 18, 1871, page 2 Sunbury American, February 18, 1871