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Mania Twain Great Shania Twain concert tickets are available only to Aggies. A limited number of these tickets go “on sale” at regular $35 and $25 prices at 10 a.m. Saturday morning, August 29, only at Reed Arena’s Box Office. You may pur chase 4 of these special tickets with each Texas ASM ID card or fee slip. Other good tickets are on sale at Reed Arena, MSC Box Office (Monday thru Friday), Ticketmaster locations, by tele phone at 268-0414 or on-line at www.Ticketmaster.com. ★ Shania Twain in Concert ★ ★ 8 p.m., September 9 ★ ★ Reed Arena ★ Page 14 ■ Wednesday, August 26, 1998 s tate Del Rio residents recover from Chat DEL RIO (AP) — As flood waters receded Tuesday, camouflage- dressed searchers accompanied by dogs worked their way around mud dy, debris-strewn streets to poke through homes looking for bodies. An earlier estimate of 30 missing people was lowered to an unspeci fied number, authorities said, al though law officers continued to search by land and by air for victims who might be missing or dead. “There are people missing and we are looking,” U.S. Border Patrol spokesperson Paty Mancha said. “We’re compiling shelter lists and comparing those to missing lists. Everybody doesn’t have access to a phone and that is a real problem.” Six people were killed in the flooding in Del Rio, Lt. Judy Altom of the Texas Department of Public Safety said. The hardest-hit area was a neighborhood of mostly poor peo ple near San Felipe Creek, a nor mally placid stream that roared over its bank and into homes dur ing a downpour caused by the rem nant of TYopical Storm Charley. Entire houses were washed away. Others had roofs or walls ripped off. Cars and pickup trucks were over turned or carried away by flood wa ters. Personal belongings — panty hose, beads, shoes, a trophy, a Bible — were strewn about the streets or crammed against chain-link fences. A Christmas tree and a strand of blue lights lay near one home. A ce ramic mold of praying hands sat in the middle of a street. Above San Felipe Creek, heli copters flown by the Border Patrol “Their houses are destroyed. Some of the people lost their loved ones. They're feeling really low." Robert Chavira Del Rio mayor and the Texas Amiy National Guard hovered as officers looked over the debris-covered landscape for victims. Along the creek, small teams of Bor der Patrol and Department of Public Safety (DPS) officers searched on foot, some using dogs.The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department used boats to patrol the creek. The Mexican government said three people were killed in Ciudad Acuna, across the Rio Grande. Five people died in flood-related deaths over the weekend in the Texas Hill Country. Although two-thirds of the city was under water Monday, the wa ter had receded Tuesday, and the city began looking toward the cleanup. Some 400 homes sustained damage, Del Rio mayor Robert Chavira said. “Their houses are destroyed. Some of the people lost their loved ones,” Chavira said. "They’re feel ing really low. They’re feeling ’Where do we go from here?”’ Early Thesday, only a few dogs roamed the roads of Del Rio’s San Felipe neighborhood. Approximate ly 700 people had spent the night in shelters because their homes were damaged by flooding. One by one, residents began to come back to check on their prop erty if the police, DPS or Border Pa trol would let them past barricades. “I was glad I got my family out,” resident Larry Martinez said as he opened the doors of his small home to “air out” the smell of rotten food seeping from his refrigerator. “I don’t really care about the damage." Martinez and his wife and chil dren helped another family with five children escape in the rising water. They also grabbed two i. xaf liar youngsters floatingk|g a ttal tress after their parr ■ them, he said. Still hanging abort door was an upside- shoe for good luck. MrL his head. ■ “It’s no good luck' “What I sawthatnigln no luck.” Maria and Frar.-I walked along thecreaH looking for Frank’sun. b 001 his 80s. His houseivaj:B mer - by the water and feR slUl -^'' 1 ieanl w 1 iether he ma£f-M seven "We don’t knov !l ' j caught him asleep inTT Esquivel said. "Wee B 01 " tw In Brown Plaza,anB 1 y ear park in the neighbort. 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