Dad killed in Texas floods while ‘holding onto his babies’ as they were swept away, witness speaks out

John and Julia’s bodies have tragically been found (Facebook/John Burgess)

“My husband was in the water trying to ask them, ‘Please throw me your baby!’ The man was holding tight to his babies, and he just got swept away,” she said to the New York Post.

Guillen said the Burgess’, like many families, had come for the Fourth of July celebrations, adding: “The kids were so excited to be here.”

She also revealed all 28 of the RV’s parked at the camp were destroyed and recalls the harrowing moments they were swept away in the pitch-black darkness.

“We heard people screaming throughout the night,” she continued. “The cabins from the RV park next door came floating, and they were getting smashed against the trees.”

The scene of the flood along the Guadalupe River (Eric Vryn/Getty Images)

”‘Help me! Help me!’ — that was the main thing. You heard a lot of screaming, it was just too much,” Guillen added.

Tragically, the bodies of John, a graduate of China Spring High School in the Waco area, and his wife, a former teacher at Belton’s Lakewood Elementary, have since been recovered, reports WLUC.

However, their two sons remain missing.

“The neighbors around here, we’ve all been praying and everything, and it’s just a sad, sad situation. I just can’t hardly believe it,” a neighbor, Winnie Taylor, told the outlet.

A fundraiser to rebuild the now-devastated Blue Oak RV Park has since raised $1,599 at the time of writing.