Name not reported
Two Black men were held in the Clifton Forge, West Virginia, jail on October 17, 1891, after a clash with town officers earlier that day. That night, two large mobs gathered at the jail, fired into it, and broke in with axes and sledgehammers after failing to break the door with a log. According to a Seattle Post-Intelligencer report, the mob took three prisoners from the jail, hanged two of them from a tree in a gully near the building, and shot them. A 16-year-old boy among the prisoners was brought back.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. According to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, a mob broke into the Clifton Forge, W. Va. jail, took two prisoners, hanged them from a tree and shot them.
Reported by: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (reporters).