Texas flooding death toll surpasses 100
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Some camps in the region had to be evacuated, and local newspapers described how Camp Mystic was among those cut off from the outside world. According to a Kerr County history book, floodwaters at Camp Mystic almost reached the top of the dining hall’s stairs.
Virginia Wynne Naylor, 8, was at Camp Mystic, a girls' summer camp with cabins along the river in a rural part of Kerr County, when the floods hit on July 4. Her family confirmed her death in a statement, referring to her as Wynne.
About 700 children were at Camp Mystic when flash floods hit on Friday. Here's what we know about the storied summer camp for girls.
For decades, Dick and Tweety Eastland presided over Camp Mystic with a kind of magisterial benevolence that alumni well past childhood still describe with awe.
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President Donald Trump is set to survey the damage in the hard-hit county where Camp Mystic campers and staff are among the 96 dead
Two dozen girls from a Christian summer camp remained missing the day after shocking flash floods devastated the Texas Hill Country.
Dick Eastland, the Camp Mystic owner who pushed for flood alerts on the Guadalupe River, was killed in last week’s deadly surge.