Three Black men were lynched in Kirvin, Texas for allegedly murdering a young girl.

They came across the body and the search party turned into a posse of 1,000 men armed with whatever weapon they had.

At midnight of May 6, the mob forced its way into the prison and dragged the three men out of the jail.

The victims were forced to watch as the others were tied to a plow, had wood stacked around them, doused with gasoline and lit on fire.

[3] Author Monte Akers in his book Flames After Midnight: Murder, Vengeance and the Desolation of a Texas Community, concluded that McKinley "Snap" Curry conspired with Claude and Audey Prowell to kill Eula Ausley and that Mose Jones and Johnny Cornish were innocent.