There was mass panic at the end of the chapter. Give a quote to show this.

The Martians are coming, apparently having pushed past military installments. They are using a terrible weapon called the Black Smoke, a type of poison gas. The narrator's brother grabs some money and flees his home.

That was all, but it was enough. The whole population of the great six-million city was stirring, slipping, running; presently it would be pouring en masse northward. ch 14