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Search and recovery teams are also looking for a missing camp counselor who hasn't been seen since the July Fourth flooding catastrophe.
At least 27 campers and counselors at Camp Mystic perished in Friday's floods, with the total death toll in the floods now surpassing 100.
Flash floods in Central Texas claimed lives, including at Camp Mystic, where campers sang to cope. The camp director and others died, and the community mourns, with remembrance funds established.
Janie Hunt, 9, Eloise Peck, 8, Lila Bonner, 9, Hanna Lawrence, 8, Rebecca Lawrence, 8, and Hadley Hanna, 8, have all been confirmed dead.
One of our young men started crying and told me he had my wife but he couldn’t hold on to her. She went a mile down the river. Nobody went that far and survived,” the Rev.
Two 8-year-old Austin girls died in Kerr County flooding; community and school district support grieving families.
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The Cherokee Bend Elementary School student was the daughter of Samford University Assistant Professor Patrick Marsh and Dr. Jill Marsh, a family medicine practitioner in Homewood. Norton’s Florist on Birmingham’s Southside is selling blue mailbox bows to raise money for Sarah’s family or the organization of their choice.
A heartbreaking video shows campers and staffers at Camp Mystic being playful and enjoying their summer hours before waters from the catastrophic Texas flash flood swept away scores of young girls.