Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Four Black people were taken from a jail in a Louisiana town on the Illinois Central line by a mob and lynched, according to a Wausau Pilot report published in October 1900. Their names and ages are not given in this account, and neither is the exact date. The report describes a lynching from the jail but gives no further detail about the people or how the mob took them from custody.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched