Died in custody
Name not reported
A Black man being transported by train back to Pueblo, Colorado, was in the custody of officers when a mob took him from them. According to a May 1900 report in The Grenada Sentinel, the mob dragged him by a rope around his neck for two blocks and hanged him. The paper said some in the mob wanted to burn his body, but better counsel prevailed.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: news reports.