The Ranchero [Corpus Christi, TX], May 26, 1860
The bleached remains of the emigrant party massacred at the Mountain Meadow, in Utah, have been collected into a single grave, and a stone monument, conical in form, fifty feet in height, now marks the spot where they rest. This is surmounted by a cross of red cedar, twelve feet in height, on which is carved the following inscription: “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord.” On the base of the monument stands a granite slab, into which are cut the words, “Here 120 men, women and children were massacred in cold blood, early in September, 1857. They were from Arkansas.”