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35 just west of Xenia could accommodate little more than pedestrians after tornado struck yesterday Rescuers hunt more dead, hurt; 50 percent of Xenia damaged if novum- St- "Off Alt Staff writers involved in yesterday's coverage of the Xenia tornado were Jim Babcock, Jim Casey, Bill Carlson, Gail Collins, Arlene Gordon, Ann Heller, Mickey Davis, Fred Lawson, Cathy Martindale, Bumis Morris, Mark Roth, Bonnie Russ, Robert Schumacher, Mary Anne Sharkey, Paul Turk, and Dave Workman, and special writer Marg DeMarino. Photographic coverage of yesterday's tornado was provided by staff photographers James Rutledge, Al Wilson, and Walt Kleine and University of Dayton student Mark Duncan. There are four pages of pictures inside Page 8, Page 53, Page 69A and Page 69B. It- y. Tornadoes that hit and then hit again left at least 25 dead and 300 injured yesterday as they raked a trail from Lebanon to Xenia and Wilberforce.

One tornado hit full force in Greene County, gouging a two-mile path from a residential plat into the heart of the city. An hour and a half later, another tornado struck in Warren and Butler counties. Six blocks were damaged in Lebanon and 12 to 15 residents were injured. Part of the tiny village of Pisgah was "flattened" and four were hospitalized. Late last night reports from Central State University indicated the campus was as severely damaged as Xenia.

New dormitory buildings were destroyed, the library roof was ripped off and the post office building destroyed. One body was removed from the post office. (Details on page 8). NAMES OF the dead had not ben released last night, but one was a nine-year-old boy. Greene County Coroner Justin, Krause said he cxpeced the death toll to reach 60 by this morning.

Xenia Police Chief Ray Jordan said last night that 50 per- I'll fr-1-. 1 -Is'', Vvil v. i r- iJ- cent of the city's buildings were demolished or severely damaged. The tornado cut a half-mile path the Arrowhead plat in the southwest part of Xenia, leaving only slabs where houses once stood. It roared into the center of the city, the courthouse square.

The courthouse roof was stripped off and the windows sucked out. The fate was the same for the nearby Xenia hotel. The tops of the armory, and the Red Cross building were peeled off. EVEN SEVEN cars of a passing train were blown off the Penn Central tracks across West Main Street. And the Xenia High School was demolished.

Eight buses around the building were tumbled on their sides. No students were in school at the time. The tornado moved on, leaving behind the dead and injured lying on the roads, hidden under debris and overturned cars. The next tornado, which hit in Warren and Butler counties, packed less force. Police reported haf the town of Mason wai damaged.

More than 100 homes and the armory was damaged in Lebanon. No fatalities were reported. Scattered tornado damage was reported in other counties including one in Cortsville in (Continued on Page 8) More on twisters Tornadoes kill 31 in Indiana, Page Partial list of area casualties, Page 22; tornadoes kill 46 Kentucky, 2 in Cincinnati, Page 15; Lebanon, Latonia races called off, Freedom Hall damaged, Pa'ge 30; Central State damaged, Page 8. Pat Hearst rejects family, joins SLA Text of Patricia Hearst's message, Page 15. the family's home near here: "I know my daughter very well I know my girl.

She would never join any organization like that without being coerced." The couple, whose life for the past eight weeks had sifted from desperation to often expressed hope, spoke only those words, answering no questions from the cluster of newsmen gathered in front of their, home. Their brief statements were carried live by local television stations. On the tape, which also ferried death threats by the SLA against three so-called "ere-mies of the people." Miss (Continued on Page 2) SAN FRANCISCO (AP)-Patricia Hearst, the newspaper heiress who was dragged screaming from her apartment two months ago, renounced her family yesterday and declared she was joining her terrorist kidnapers as a revolutionary. "I have changed grown. I've become conscious and can never go back to the life we led before," said the tape-recorded voice identified by her parents as that of the 20-year-old Patricia, whose life had been held Egainst demands for millions of dollars of free food for the poor.

The sudden declaration, one day after a sign that her release by the mysterious Symbionese Liberation Army appeared im- minent. left Patricia's parents stunned and disbelieving. "Personally, I don't believe it," newspaper executive Randolph A. Hearst said after hearing the tape. "We've had her 20 years, they've had her 60 days, and I don't believe she's going to change her philosophy that quickly or that radically." "IF IT is her choice to become a member of an organization like this, we still love her," he added.

Hearst's wife, Catherine, agreed, telling newsmen outside Tornado victims walk away from damage.