Los Angeles, California
In our last publication, we shared a rumor about the massacre of a large party of emigrants on their way to California, through Utah Territory. We were unwilling at first to credit the statement and hoped that rumor had exaggerated the facts, but the report has been confirmed, and the loss of life is even greater than at first reported.
This is the foulest massacre Indians have ever perpetrated on this route, and calls loudly for government intervention. There is no longer reason to doubt the facts—we have them from different parties, and all agree in placing the number of the dead at over one hundred souls, men, women and children.