by By Jane Ross, Rich McKay and Jonathan Allen
Kerrville (Reuters) -the number of fatalities from the flood of fourth July, who came home on Tuesday of the Hill Country of Central Texas, rose to at least 109 children when many children pressed through the search teams through hills of mud distortions for numerous people.
The majority of the deaths and the search for additional victims concentrated on Kerr County and the County seat of Kerrville, a city with 25,000 inhabitants, which turned into a disaster zone when heavy rainfall met the region at the end of Friday and lost fatal floods along the Guadalupe River.
The corpses of 94 flood victims, more than a third of them, were recovered in Kerr County alone from Tuesday, said the governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, at a press conference in the late afternoon after visiting the area in air.
He said 161 other people are known to be missing in the flood zone.
The dead from Kerr County included 27 campers and consultants from Camp Mystic, an almost centuries-old all-girl Christian Summer Retreat on the banks of the Guadalupe near the city of Hunt. The Camp director was also over.
Five girls and a warehouse consultant were not yet taken into account on Tuesday, said Abbott, together with another child who was not connected to the warehouse.
By noon, 15 further flood-related deaths were confirmed in part of the Texas Hill-Land, which was known as “Sturburfreut Alley”, said the governor and brought the overall booking from the catastrophe from the catastrophe to 109.
Rescue teams from federal authorities, neighboring states and Mexico have temporarily hindered thunderstorms and showers, have joined the local efforts to look for missing victims, although the hope that more survivors have faded after the time.
The last flood victim, which was found alive in Kerr County, was on Friday.
“The work is extremely tricky, time -consuming,” said Leutnant Colonel Ben Baker from the Texas Game Wardern at a press conference. “It’s dirty work. The water is still there.”
More than one foot rain fell in the region in less than an hour before dawn last Friday and sent a water wall that were kaded along the Guadalup River basin, killed by people in dozens of people and left stacked stacks of ruins, uprooted trees and vehicles.
Local, state and state emergency officials have asked themselves on annoyed questions as to whether they could have warned people in areas that are prudent in flood.
During an earlier news information on Tuesday, the sheriff of Kerr County, Larry Leitha, showed questions about the emergency management company and the willingness of the district and rejected it to say who was ultimately responsible for monitoring weather warnings and the issuing of a flood warning or evacuation orders.
He said that his office received an emergency 911 calls between 4 a.m. on Friday, a few hours after the edition of a Flash Flood alarm between 4 a.m. and 5 a.m. “We are currently putting together a timeline,” said Leitha.
About the deaths in the most affected Kerr County, the number of fatalities in Travis County, seven in Kendall County, five in Burnett County, two in Williamson County and one in Tom Green County.
US President Donald Trump, a Republican, plans to visit the destroyed region this week, a spokesman said. The Democrats in Washington have called for an official investigation whether the work cuts of the Trump government have influenced the response from the agency to the floods at the national weather service.
(Reporting by Jane Ross in Kerrville, Texas, Jonathan Allen in New York and Rich McKay in Atlanta; additional reporting and writing by Steve Gorman in Los Angeles; Editor from Rod Nickel and Deepa Babington)
