"One may picture too, the sudden shifting of attention, the swiftly spreading coils and bellyings of that blackness advancing headlong,toward heavenward, turning the twilight to palpable darkness, a strange and horrible antagonist of vapor striding among its victims, men and horses near it seen dimly, running,shrieking falling headlong,shouts of dismay, the guns suddenly abandoned, men choking and writhing on the ground, and the swift broadening out of the opaque cone of smoke. And then night and extinction -nothing but a silent mass of impenetrable vapor hiding its dead."
That black smoke. Or are we not talking about War of the Worlds? Sorry for any confusion.

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