Westminster, Texas ? Three people were killed and at least 26 homes were destroyed in the storms that hit North Texas late Tuesday and early Wednesday.

Ten people were hospitalized and dozens of others were treated at the scene for minor injuries.

A couple in their 80s were found dead in a destroyed mobile home in Westminster, about 45 miles northeast of Dallas, Collin County Fire Marshal Steve Deffibaugh said. A 14-year-old boy was killed in neighboring Grayson County when a chimney collapsed on the stairwell where he had taken shelter, authorities said.

Christy Adame, who lives a half-mile from the home where the elderly couple died, took shelter in a closet with her husband and two sons.

When they emerged, she found her horse barn gone, one of her horses dead in a tree and the smell of propane so strong – and the risk of an explosion so high – that officials would not let a neighbor shoot his suffering cow, which had been impaled on a two-by-four.