text:  A great flaming eye made its appearance at a distance; the gradual boom of its approach grew louder and louder and its look became redder and redder; and then we watched it roll off into the darkness again on the other side of the station on its way to Bath--till tearing up at the rate of forty miles an hour came another red-eyed monster breathing horrible flame and seeming to burn its way through the sable livery of the night with the strength and straightness of a red-hot cannon-ball