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Follow live updates as Trump visits Texas after deadly floods.
The flooding on the Guadalupe River in Central Texas has killed at least 111 people and ranks among the deadliest disasters for children in the United States in recent decades.
The young victims include many from Camp Mystic, a Christian summer camp for girls on the banks of the Guadalupe in Kerr County, northwest of San Antonio. Twenty-seven campers and staff members were killed, and five girls and a 19-year-old counselor remained missing on Tuesday afternoon.
On Monday, Mayor Joe Herring Jr. of Kerrville, the county seat, said rescue crews would push forward with their searches, slashing through debris and downed trees. “This will be a rough week,” Mr. Herring said at a news conference, later adding, “We need your prayers.”
Here’s what we know about some of those who were killed.
Summer Camp Employees
Dick Eastland, 70
Mr. Eastland had run Camp Mystic, a Christian summer camp, for decades, along with his wife, Tweety. He was reportedly swept away while trying to rescue children from rising floodwaters.
Chloe Childress, 19
Ms. Childress, a 19-year-old recent graduate of the Kinkaid School in Houston who was slated to enroll at the University of Texas at Austin in the fall, had been working as a counselor at Camp Mystic since June.
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