This article is co-published with The Texas Newsroom, a public radio journalism collaboration of stations across the state.
The first 911 call from the historic Camp Mystic on the Guadalupe River came in at 3:57 a.m., when a caller told the dispatcher she was stranded on a hill and cabins around her were filling with water. Around the same time, the swelling river swept away Camp Mystic’s owner and his son, the family’s lawyer said, along with a number of campers.
But it wasn’t until 6:34 a.m. — more than two hours later — that a Kerr County sheriff’s office captain sent the first text message to a group of emergency response leaders about what he called potential “issues” at Camp Mystic.
