Journalist: The hammering from the pit and the pounding of guns grew louder. My fear rose at the sound of someone creeping into the house. Then I saw it was a y oung artilleryman, weary, streaked with blood and dirt.
Artilleryman: Anyone here?
Journalist: Come in. Here drink this.
Artilleryman: Thank you.
Journalist: Whats happened?
Artilleryman: They wiped us out. Hundreds dead maybe thousands.
Journalist: The heat ray?
Artilleryman: The Martians! They were inside the hoods of machines theyd made massive metal things on legs! Giant machines that walked they attacked us! Th ey wiped us out!
Journalist: Machines?
Artilleryman: Fighting machines! Picking up men and bashing em against trees. J ust hunks of metal, but they knew exactly what they were doing.
Journalist: Mmm. There was another cylinder came last night.
Artilleryman: Yes. It looked bound for London.
Journalist: London! Carrie! I hadnt dreamed there could be danger to Carrie and her father, so many miles away. I must go to London at once.
Artilleryman: And me. Got to report to headquarters if theres anything left o f it.
Journalist: At Byfleet we came upon an inn, but it was deserted.
Artilleryman: Is everybody dead?
Journalist: Not everybody. Look! Six cannons with gunners standing by.
Artilleryman: Its bows and arrows against the lightning. They havent seen the heat ray yet.
Journalist: We hurried along the road to Weybridge. Suddenly, there was a heavy explosion. The ground heaved, windows shattered and gusts of smoke erupted into the air.
Artilleryman: Look! There they are! What did I tell you?
Journalist: Quickly, one after the other, four of the fighting machines appeared . Monstrous tripods, higher than the tallest steeple, striding over pine trees a nd smashing them. Walking engines of glistening metal. Each carried a huge funne l and I realised with horror that Id seen this awful thing before.
A fifth machine appeared on the far bank. It raised itself to full height, flour ished the funnel high in the air and the ghostly terrible heat ray struck the town. As it struck, all five fighting machines exulted, emitting deafening howls that roared like thunder.
Ulla! Ulla!
Journalist: The six guns we had seen now fired simultaneously, decapitating a fi ghting machine. The Martian inside the hood was slain, splashed to the four wind s, and the body, nothing now but an intricate device of metal, went whirling to destruction. As the other monsters advanced, people ran away blindly, the artil lery man among them, but I jumped into the water and hid until forced up to brea the. Now the guns spoke again, but this time the heat ray sent them to oblivion
Ulla!
Journalist: With a white flash, the heat ray swept across the river. Scalded, ha lf-blinded and agonized, I staggered through leaping, hissing water towards the shore, I fell helplessly, in full view of the Martians, expecting nothing but de ath. The foot of a Martian came down close to my head, then lifted again, as the four Martians carried away the debris of their fallen comrade .and I realized t hat by a miracle I had escaped.
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