Entire cabin housing the youngest girls aged 8-10, attending Camp Mystic along with their counselors washed away after flash floods hit Kerr County, Texas, over the weekend

The camp had 700 attendees as the water rose 20 feet in just 90 minutes when the catastrophic floods hit on Friday morning,some of the girls in the Camp’s cabins were unable to flee, but many of the girls managed to get away

20 girls, including all 13 girls and two counselors staying in Camp Mystic’s Bubble Inn cabin – which alongside the Twins cabin, housed the youngest of the girls – were lost to the flood waters

Bodies of nine of the girls and one counselor have been found as of Monday morning, while counselor Katherine Ferruzzo and four campers remain missing

Bodies found include attendees Janie Hunt, Margaret Bellows, Lila Bonner, Lainey Landry, Sarah Marsh, Linnie McCown, Winne Naylor, Eloise Peck, Renee Smajstrla and Mary Stevens, as well as counselor Chloe Childress, 18

Total death toll of 27 at Camp Mystic include Dick Eastland, the co-owner of the Christian girls camp who body was found in a black SUV alongside those of three girls he had tried to save

At least 20 girls were among the 27 people who died in flash floods that swept through Camp Mystic, in Hunt, Texas on July 4. The 13 girls aged 8-10 years and two counselors [photo], who were staying in the camp’s Bubble Inn cabin, all perished in the catastrophic floods that hit Texas on Friday morning

A heartbreaking photo shows an entire cabin housing attendees and their counselors at a summer camp for young girls in Hunt, Texas, who were washed away in the massive flooding that devastated Texas following torrential rains over the weekend. 
A death toll of nearly thirty people has been announced after flooding swept through a summer camp located at Hunt in the the Hill country, north of San Antonio, on Friday morning. The area covers the counties of Travis, Burnet, Kendall, Tom Green and Williamson.
The number of girls far is 20, including the 13 girls staying in the Camp’s Mystic’s Bubble Inn cabin. It was reported that the two counselors supervising the cabin perished along with their wards.
Camp Mystic is a nondenominational Christian institution that has hosted the children of some of Texas’s political elite over its 99-year history. The Bubble Inn and the Twins cabin, housed the youngest of the girls, aged 8 to 10, attending this year’s summer camp.

The effects of the deadly flooding is seen in personal belongings floating inside a cabin at Camp Mystic after deadly flooding in Kerr County, Texas

A view inside of a cabin at Camp Mystic, the site of where at least 20 girls went missing after flash floods. The camp’s co-owner as well as some of the other staff members also died trying to save the girls

The cabins reportedly, were less than 500 feet from the river and thus took in water from two directions – the Guadalupe river and a creek nearby, making the girls’ escape particularly challenging. 
As of Monday morning the team of search and rescue volunteers had recovered bodies of nine of the girls and counselor Chloe Childress, 18. Katherine Ferruzzo, the second counselor in the cabin and four campers remain missing. 
Those confirmed dead are: Janie Hunt, Margaret Bellows, Lila Bonner, Lainey Landry, Sarah Marsh, Linnie McCown, Winne Naylor, Eloise Peck, Renee Smajstrla and Mary Stevens. 

Rescue workers continued the massive search for missing persons near Camp Mystic on Sunday, as officials face questions over their preparedness and the speed of their initial actions

Rescue team members on Sunday continue recovery efforts at Camp Mystic along the Guadalupe River in in Hunt, Texas, searching for any survivors or remains of people swept up in the flash flooding at Camp Mystic in Hunt, Texas

The co-owner of the Christian girls camp, Dick Eastland, reportedly died while trying to save the girls in the Twins and Bubble Inn cabins. 
His body was found in a black SUV alongside those of three girls he had tried to save.
However, many of the girls in the cabins were unable to flee as the waters of the Guadalupe River rose 26 feet in 45 minutes in Friday’s predawn hours, coming on the heels of downpour north of San Antonio.
Sheriff of Kerr county, Larry Leitha, has said at least 68 people were found dead in an area known as the Hill Country which hosts e several summer camps.
At least 10 other deaths were reported in the five affected counties, local officials have said.
Camp Mystic confirmed Monday that at least 27 campers and counselors had died in the floods. 
‘We have been in communication with local and state authorities who are tirelessly deploying extensive resources to search for our missing girls,’ the camp said in a statement posted on its website. 
When the flash flood struck before dawn on Friday, the camp was less than a week into its second, four-week term with more than 700 children in residence. Fortunately most of the girls were able to get away.

Camp co-owner Dick Eastland, [left], died while trying to save the girls in the Twins and Bubble Inn cabins. The body of 18-year-old camp counselor Chloe Childress, [right, was recovered over the weekend

‘We are deeply grateful for the outpouring of support from community, first responders, and officials at every level.’
Families were allowed to look around the camp beginning Sunday morning. 
One girl was seen walking out of a building ringing a large bell in an attempt to find survivors, while a man whose daughter was rescued from a cabin on the highest point in the camp walked the riverbank looking in clumps of trees and under big rocks.
A teenage girl had tears running down her face as they slowly drove away and she gazed through the open window at the wreckage.

Renee Smajstrla [left], Janie Hunt, 9, [center], and her best friend Sarah Marsh, 8, were listed among the young victims lost in the flooding at Camp Mystic 

Best friends Eloise Peck [left], and Lila Bonner [right], 9, were among the group of 13 girls rooming at the Bubble Inn cabin while attending Camp Mystic

Across the state, the floods killed at least 82 people. Speaking on Sunday Texas governor, Greg Abbott, noted that a further 41 people confirmed to be unaccounted for across the state and more could be missing.
In Kerr County, home to youth camps in the Texas Hill Country, the rescue team have found the bodies of 68 people, including 28 children, Sheriff Larry Leitha said Sunday afternoon. 
Fatalities in nearby counties brought the total number of deaths to 82 as of Sunday evening. 

A member of the volunteer team holds a T-shirt and backpack with the inscription Camp Mystic as the of the search and rescue mission continues

The devastation along the Guadalupe River, outside of San Antonio, has drawn a massive search effort as officials face questions over their preparedness and the speed of their initial actions. Rescuers have continued maneuvering through challenging terrain filled with snakes as they look for the missing.
Beyond the Camp Mystic campers unaccounted for, the number of missing from other nearby campgrounds and across the region had not been released.
‘We don’t even want to begin to estimate at this time,’ Kerrville City Manager Dalton Rice said Saturday, citing the likely influx of visitors during the July Fourth holiday.