midnight
One calamity bringing another , in the city , with its myriad diverse activities so interwoven . Around Alten the clattering , terrifying reports were surging . He sat there nearly all that night ; and near dawn , an official plane carried him in a flight over the city . The panics , by midnight , were causing the most deaths . Thousands , hundreds of thousands , were trying to leave the island . The tube trains , the subways , the elevateds were jammed . There were riots without number in them .