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Death toll at Texas girls summer camp rises to 27, including entire cabin of 13 girls, their counselors and camp co-owner, washed away by devastating floods in weekend’s heavy downpour

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-3df172f05975b38f1e1f345e7108f28d" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;2d1f1f&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Entire cabin housing the youngest girls aged 8-10&comma; attending Camp Mystic along with their counselors washed away after flash floods hit Kerr County&comma; Texas&comma; over the weekend<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d9bba96822febffb35d80d0d168487e8" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;2d1f1f&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>The camp had 700 attendees as <strong>the water rose 20 feet in just 90 minutes when the catastrophic floods hit on Friday morning&comma;some<&sol;strong> of the girls in the Camp&&num;8217&semi;s cabins were unable to flee&comma; but many of the girls managed to get away<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-f11df4f75256becd039ffae4591a5985" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;2d1f1f&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>20 girls&comma; including all 13 girls and two counselors staying in Camp Mystic&&num;8217&semi;s Bubble Inn cabin &&num;8211&semi; which alongside the Twins cabin&comma; housed the youngest of the girls &&num;8211&semi; were lost to the flood waters<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-bd428b237e636d8cb11f3c3777f6519a" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;2d1f1f&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Bodies of nine of the girls and one counselor have been found as of Monday morning&comma; while <strong>counselor Katherine Ferruzzo and four campers remain missing <&sol;strong><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1767a0bd5f988b6597346f600e3803ca" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;2d1f1f&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Bodies found include attendees Janie Hunt&comma; Margaret Bellows&comma; Lila Bonner&comma; Lainey Landry&comma; Sarah Marsh&comma; Linnie McCown&comma; Winne Naylor&comma; Eloise Peck&comma; Renee Smajstrla and Mary Stevens&comma; as well as counselor Chloe Childress&comma; 18<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-662a83b2675123d80f31fb7854ff723b" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;2d1f1f&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Total death toll of 27 at Camp Mystic include Dick Eastland&comma; 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<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2025&sol;07&sol;13-girls-and-two-counselors-staying-in-Camp-Mystics-Bubble-Inn-cabin-Texas-who-died-in-flood-waters&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-481438" style&equals;"width&colon;840px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size"><strong>At least 20 girls were among the 27 people who died in flash floods that swept through Camp Mystic&comma; in Hunt&comma; Texas on July 4&period; The<strong> 13 girls aged 8-10 years and two counselors &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; who were staying <&sol;strong>in the camp&&num;8217&semi;s Bubble Inn cabin&comma; all perished in the catastrophic floods that hit Texas on Friday morning <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>A heartbreaking photo shows an entire cabin housing attendees and their counselors at a summer camp for young girls in Hunt&comma; Texas&comma; who were washed away in the massive flooding that devastated Texas following torrential rains over the weekend&period; <br>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&comma; north of San Antonio&comma; on Friday morning&period; The area covers the counties of Travis&comma; Burnet&comma; Kendall&comma; Tom Green and Williamson&period;<br>The number of girls far is 20&comma; including the 13 girls staying in the Camp&&num;8217&semi;s Mystic&&num;8217&semi;s Bubble Inn cabin&period; It was reported that the two counselors supervising the cabin perished along with their wards&period;<br>Camp Mystic is a nondenominational Christian institution that has hosted the children of some of Texas’s political elite over its 99-year history&period; The Bubble Inn and the Twins cabin&comma; housed the youngest of the girls&comma; aged 8 to 10&comma; attending this year&&num;8217&semi;s summer camp&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-large"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2025&sol;07&sol;Wreckage-inside-of-a-cabin-at-Camp-Mystic-Texas-after-floods-of-July-4-3-1024x677&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-481467"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size"><strong>The effects of the deadly flooding is seen in personal belongings floating inside a cabin at Camp Mystic after deadly flooding in Kerr County&comma; Texas<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2025&sol;07&sol;Wreckage-inside-of-a-cabin-at-Camp-Mystic-Texas-after-floods-of-July-4&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-481439" style&equals;"width&colon;818px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size"><strong>A view inside of a cabin at Camp Mystic&comma; the site of where at least 20 girls went missing after flash floods&period; T<strong>he camp&&num;8217&semi;s co-owner as well as some of the other staff members also died trying to save the girls<&sol;strong><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The cabins reportedly&comma; were less than 500 feet from the river and thus took in water from two directions &&num;8211&semi; the Guadalupe river and a creek nearby&comma; making the girls&&num;8217&semi; escape particularly challenging&period; <br>As of Monday morning the team of search and rescue volunteers had recovered bodies of nine of the girls and counselor Chloe Childress&comma; 18&period; Katherine Ferruzzo&comma; the second counselor in the cabin and four campers remain missing&period; <br>Those confirmed dead are&colon; Janie Hunt&comma; Margaret Bellows&comma; Lila Bonner&comma; Lainey Landry&comma; Sarah Marsh&comma; Linnie McCown&comma; Winne Naylor&comma; Eloise Peck&comma; Renee Smajstrla and Mary Stevens&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2025&sol;07&sol;Search-and-rescue-team-members-during-recovery-effort-at-Camp-Mystic-along-the-Guadalupe-River-in-Texas-2&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-481470"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size"><strong>Rescue workers continued the massive search for missing persons near Camp Mystic on Sunday&comma; as officials face questions over their preparedness and the speed of their initial actions<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2025&sol;07&sol;Search-and-rescue-team-members-during-recovery-effort-at-Camp-Mystic-along-the-Guadalupe-River-in-Texas&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-481458" style&equals;"width&colon;840px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size"><strong>Rescue team members on Sunday continue recovery efforts at Camp Mystic along the Guadalupe River in in Hunt&comma; Texas&comma; searching for any survivors or remains of people swept up in the flash flooding at Camp Mystic in Hunt&comma; Texas<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The co-owner of the Christian girls camp&comma; Dick Eastland&comma; reportedly died while trying to save the girls in the Twins and Bubble Inn cabins&period; <br>His body<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;washingtonpost&period;com&sol;nation&sol;2025&sol;07&sol;05&sol;camp-mystic-floods-parents-missing-children&sol;"> was found<&sol;a> in a black SUV alongside those of three girls he had tried to save&period;<br>However&comma; 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&comma; coming on the heels of downpour north of San Antonio&period; <br>Sheriff of Kerr county&comma; Larry Leitha&comma; has said at least 68 people were found dead in an area known as the Hill Country which hosts e several summer camps&period;<br>At least 10 other deaths were reported in the five affected counties&comma; local officials have said&period;<br>Camp Mystic confirmed Monday that at least 27 campers and counselors had died in the floods&period;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;washingtonpost&period;com&sol;nation&sol;2025&sol;07&sol;05&sol;camp-mystic-floods-parents-missing-children&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noreferrer noopener"> <&sol;a><br>&&num;8216&semi;We have been in communication with local and state authorities who are tirelessly deploying extensive resources to search for our missing girls&comma;&&num;8217&semi; the camp said in a statement posted on its website&period; <br>When the flash flood struck before dawn on Friday&comma; the camp was less than a week into its second&comma; four-week term with more than 700 children in residence&period; Fortunately most of the girls were able to get away&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2025&sol;07&sol;Dick-Eastland-left-and-Chloe-Childress-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-481465" style&equals;"width&colon;840px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size"><strong>Camp co-owner Dick Eastland&comma; &lbrack;left&rsqb;&comma; died while trying to save the girls in the Twins and Bubble Inn cabins&period; The body of 18-year-old camp counselor Chloe Childress&comma; &lbrack;right&comma; was recovered over the weekend<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&&num;8216&semi;We are deeply grateful for the outpouring of support from community&comma; first responders&comma; and officials at every level&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br>Families were allowed to look around the camp beginning Sunday morning&period; <br>One girl was seen walking out of a building ringing a large bell in an attempt to find survivors&comma; 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&period;<br>A teenage girl had tears running down her face as they slowly drove away and she gazed through the open window at the wreckage&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2025&sol;07&sol;Renee-Smajstrla-left-Eloise-Peck-center-and-Lila-Bonner-right-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-481475"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size"><strong>Renee Smajstrla &lbrack;left&rsqb;&comma; Janie Hunt&comma; 9&comma; &lbrack;center&rsqb;&comma; and her best friend Sarah Marsh&comma; 8&comma; were listed among the young victims lost in the flooding at Camp Mystic <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2025&sol;07&sol;Eloise-Peck-left-and-Lila-Bonner-right-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-481450" style&equals;"width&colon;827px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size"><strong>Best friends Eloise Peck &lbrack;left&rsqb;&comma; and Lila Bonner &lbrack;right&rsqb;&comma; 9&comma; were among the group of 13 girls rooming at the Bubble Inn cabin while attending Camp Mystic<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Across the state&comma; the floods killed at least 82 people&period; Speaking on Sunday Texas governor&comma; Greg Abbott&comma; noted that a further 41 people confirmed to be unaccounted for across the state and more could be missing&period;<br>In Kerr County&comma; home to youth camps in the Texas Hill Country&comma; the rescue team have found the bodies of 68 people&comma; including 28 children&comma; Sheriff Larry Leitha said Sunday afternoon&period; <br>Fatalities in nearby counties brought the total number of deaths to 82 as of Sunday evening&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2025&sol;07&sol;Search-and-rescue-volunteer-holds-a-T-shirt-and-backpack-with-the-Camp-Mystic-inscription-after-the-flood&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-481442" style&equals;"width&colon;810px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size"><strong>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<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The devastation along the Guadalupe River&comma; outside of San Antonio&comma; has drawn a massive search effort as officials face questions over their preparedness and the speed of their initial actions&period; Rescuers have continued maneuvering through challenging terrain filled with snakes as they look for the missing&period;<br>Beyond the Camp Mystic campers unaccounted for&comma; the number of missing from other nearby campgrounds and across the region had not been released&period;<br>&&num;8216&semi;We don’t even want to begin to estimate at this time&comma;&&num;8217&semi; Kerrville City Manager Dalton Rice said Saturday&comma; citing the likely influx of visitors during the July Fourth holiday&period;<br><&sol;p>&NewLine;

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