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Show OUTBREAK OF RIOTING . ON SATURDAY NIGHT ATLANTA, Ga., Sept. 2 L Fully a score of people, both white and black, are reported killed and more' than fifty wounded in the bitter race riot which . broke out here Saturday night. Most . 0f the mob violence was done in the ont-fkirts ont-fkirts of the city, and it is, therefore, difficult to segregate news from facts in the sanguinary conflict. With intermittent stages of quiet and disorder, the riot held sway during Sun- day, but with the advent of darkness the negroes in the outlying districts in-r in-r creBsed their firing, and , frequent clafckes between the blacks and the ' State militia resulted, with losses on both sides. 4 . . The negroes were seemingly preparing Themselves for the outbreak, as they had armed themselves for the fray, and hnndreds have prepared themselves for a, fight to the last with the whites. Four attempts at assault on white women by negroes within or near the limits of the city Saturday wrought white citizens here to & high pitch of excitement. The assaults of the day followed two others of a similar nature na-ture within the week and at least half |