Name not reported

In February 1871, according to The Evening Telegraph, a group of about five hundred mounted men, said to be Ku Klux Klan members, took eight people out of the jail in Columbia, South Carolina, and killed them. The Sunbury American reported that the mob broke into the jail and took out ten Black prisoners, eight of whom it said were killed on the spot. Neither report names those killed or describes how the mob got in.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

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