Devastated family
Hailey Chavarria, Sunday, could only turn to hope and prayer. For her, the wait is a heartbreaker.
It is that for Austin’s 28 -year -old professor, waiting means to hope that five family members are found, all disappeared.
Photo Jordan Vonderhaar, The New York Times
Hailey Chavarria, right, and her sister Celeste Helms are waiting for news from family members.
Wait, three days after a water torrent crossed their campsite site near the Guadalupe river, during what was to be a festive family stay. Wait to know if his mother, his mother’s husband, a aunt, her husband and a cousin are still alive.
Only a 22 -year -old cousin, Devyn Smith, was found after the floods, firmly hung on a tree. It was fired by the current over 24 km, through three dams, broken recreational vehicles and water refrigerators. Mme Smith is still hospitalized, staples on the head, “every thumb of her body” flayed and bruised.
The hero of the Mystic Camp
“He died trying to save girls from the Mystic camp. It was his whole life. »»
These words, those of Cam Wright, former camper and instructor of the Mystic camp, describe the last moments of Richard “Dick” Eastland. Coproprist and executive co -director of the camp, he was found with three daughters that he tried to save water.
Mr. Eastland remembered the name of each camper, despite his decades of seniority. He was a third generation director, the Mystic camp having been in the family since his grandparents. He died in a rescue helicopter, along the way to a hospital in Houston.
It was he who taught camper to fish, to start fires, to fold of flags. On Sunday, he celebrated mass in Chapel Hill, a neighboring site overlooking the camp.
For mme Wright, Dick Eastland “was like a father for thousands of little girls”.
“My children are sound”
“The camp was completely destroyed. It was really scary. »»
Elinor Lester, 13, is one of the camper camper who was rescued on Friday by a helicopter, after crossing the flood waters. The girl remembers having been woken up at 1:30 a.m., the crackling thunder and the water striking the windows of the cabin where she was sleeping.
When she saw her daughter, a little plush and handed by hand, Elizabeth Lester could not hold her tears. She was saved.
His son, also a camper, lived at the Junta camp during the floods. He was rescued when a camp instructor woke up, that he noticed a rose of water in the cabin and opened a window to help boys swim to the outside. Camp La Junta said on social networks that all of its campers and employees were safe.
My children are sound, but to know that others still lack the call, it eats away from the inside.
Elizabeth Lester, mother of rescued children
His life for her children and his fiancée
Julian Ryan, when the situation demanded it, did not hesitate a second. The 27-year-old father had to do everything to save the lives of his children, his mother-in-law and his, said her fiancée, Christinia Wilson.
On Friday, when the flood waters hit his house, Ryan punch on a window. If the maneuver allowed all his relatives to escape and take refuge in security, Ryan’s arm began to bleed abundantly.
His lifeless body was found several hours later, when the waters withdrew. He lived in Ingram, near the Guadalupe.
“He died as a hero and it will never ignore,” said Julian Ryan’s sister Connie Salas. “I will still like him,” added his friend Kris Roberts, describing Mr. Ryan as “the nicest person”.
With the information of Associated Press, of Washington Postof New York Times and khou
