CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Authorities say a dozen people are missing after flash flooding along the Blanco River in Central Texas that damaged hundreds of homes.

Kristi Wyatt, a spokeswoman for the city of San Marcos, said Monday that 12 people are now missing after the flooding Sunday, when three people were reported missing. Wyatt says she didn’t immediately have more information.

Former Nueces County Commissioner Joe McComb says his son’s wife and their two children are among the missing.

McComb tells the Corpus Christi Caller-Times that his 36-year-old son, Jonathan, is hospitalized in San Antonio with multiple injuries after a house he was staying at was knocked off its foundation and carried down the raging river Sunday. It struck a bridge and then began breaking up.

The Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd says five members of two families from the Corpus Christi church also were in the house and are missing.

Cars and trucks are lined up for a quarter-mile waiting to get back into the town.

Residents were waiting Monday for police to open a bridge over the rain-swollen Blanco River into Wimberley, about 35 miles southwest of Austin.

Dana Campbell lives on a bluff above the river. The 69-year-old retired engineer said Monday that the damage left behind by the floodwaters looks the swath of a tornado, with damage “as far as the eye can see.”Meanwhile, the  death toll from a tornado in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Acuna has risen to 13.

Coahuila state spokeswoman Rosario Cano says the number of dead rose with the discovery of more bodies.

The head of Mexico’s national civil defense agency, Luis Felipe Puente, told local media that 230 people had been injured and that shelters are being set up.

The twister hit shortly after daybreak on Monday. It destroyed homes, upended cars and ripped an infant in a baby carrier from its mother’s arms. The child is missing.

Ciudad Acuna is a city of about 100,000 across the border from Del Rio, Texas.

More rain was in the forecast for Monday for a large swath of the nation’s midsection including Wyoming, South Dakota and Oklahoma.

 


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