Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Two Black people were being held in the jail at Vicksburg when, according to a brief telegram published in the San Antonio Daily Light on July 7, 1892, a mob took them out and lynched them. The telegram said the Light Artillery refused to protect the jail. The two were held in custody when the mob seized them, and the telegram reports their deaths as lynchings.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: San Antonio Daily Light telegram (reporters).