Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
According to a brief telegram published in the San Antonio Daily Light on July 7, 1892, two Black people were held in the jail at Vicksburg when a mob took them out and lynched them. The telegram reported that the Light Artillery refused to protect the jail. The account gives no further details about the two people, the mob, or how the jail's staff responded.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: San Antonio Daily Light telegram (reporters).