Then as the night deepened an eerie silence fell over the City. Some witnesses said that "never had they know a quieter night." Another wrote that "the silence was deep and uncanny.....The noises of the endless shuffle of feet and the clattering and rustling made by thousands of human beings as they eat, work, play and move about: all these were stilled, as though the town was breathless with fear and tension."
Baadhi ya mashahidi/waliokuwepo walisema kwamba "hawajawahi kuona usiku mkimya wa namna hiyo". Mwingine aliandika kuwa "Ukimya ulikuwa mkubwa na wa kutisha.....Kelele za hatua za miguu na sauti za kutafunatafuna na kuongeaongea zilizofanywa na maelfu ya binadamu wakati wakila, fanya kazi, cheza na kuzunguka zunguka: zote hizi zilitulia/nyamaza, na wakati huo mji ulikuwa umejaa hofu na wasiwasi."