Name not reported
An unidentified young man, about seventeen years old, was being brought toward Santa Fe, Illinois, by officers who had captured him, according to an Evening Star dispatch from Thebes, Illinois. A mob of farmers took him from the officers and hanged him from an oak tree near the new bridge being built across the Mississippi on April 26, 1903. The same night, the mob fired on a camp of Black bridge workers and burned their tents, wounding several people. The dispatch says none were known to have been killed.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A mob of farmers took him from officers who had captured him and hanged him from an oak tree, according to the Evening Star dispatch from Thebes, Ill.
Reported by: Evening Star dispatch from Thebes, Ill. (reporters).