 "The New York Times" blasted the city of Rock Springs in the first of at least two editorials on the topic, stating, "the appropriate fate for a community of this kind would be that of Sodom and Gomorrah".In another "Times" editorial on November 10, 1885, the paper continued to assail not only the residents of Rock Springs who were involved in the violence, but those who stood by and let the mob continue its behavior.Newspapers in Wyoming, such as the "Cheyenne Tribune" and the "Laramie Boomerang", reacted with sympathy toward the white miners.