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Firms struggle to cope
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September 13, 2001: 8:49 a.m. ET
Many employees remain unaccounted for two days after the terrorist attacks
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NEW YORK (CNN) - Companies with offices in the World Trade Center are beginning the difficult task of trying to account for all their employees. A very partial list of workers unaccounted for based on calls by CNNfn and wires shows approximately 2,800 people remain missing.
Cantor Fitzgerald, a leading treasury bond brokerage, has accounted for fewer than 200 of its 1,000 employees at the World Trade Center, according to Reuters. But a company representative told CNNfn that tracking everybody is proving extremely difficult. "The staff count for New York was about 1,000," said David Buik, who is based in Cantor Fitzgerald's London office. "But one has no idea with holidays, with biz trips, biz meetings during the day, who was there and who wasn't. We are still waiting to find out."
Mizuho Holdings Fuji Bank and Daichi Kangyo Bank is missing 532 of the 1,491 employees it had in both towers.
Marsh Inc, an insurance and consulting company, had 1,700 employees in both towers. The company told CNNfn 700 remain missing.
New York Governor George Pataki said 198 state workers remain missing. They include 112 civilian Port Authority workers, 42 sworn officers, 40 workers from the Department of Taxation and Finance and four workers from the Department of Transport.
About 180 people attending a Risk Waters Group financial technology conference at the Windows on the World restaurant, located atop the south tower, are unaccounted for. According to the company's Web site, "All attempts by Risk Waters staff in New York and London to establish the whereabouts of those attending the conference have so far yielded no information."
Fiduciary Trust International, which had 650 employees in the south tower, has not accounted for 120 of them.
Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield says 94 of its 1,847 employees working on the 24th to 30th floors of the north tower remain missing.
Reuters reported that Eurobrokers, a subsidiary of Maxcor Financial Group, has accounted for about 70 percent of its 280 employees; 80 remain missing.
Investment banking firm Sandler O'Neill & Partners says 70 of its 150 employees are missing.
At the headquarters of Keefe Bruyette Woods, a small investment bank, 69 of its 171 are unaccounted for.
Fred Alger Management said 38 of its 56 employees are missing including the company's president, David Alger, a frequent guest on CNNfn.
Frenkel & Co, an international insurance brokerage firm, has four employees out of 180 unaccounted for. Internet network operator Genuity says it has been unable to locate three technicians working in the World Trade Center. Cisco Systems says one employee was killed.
Other firms with significant numbers of employees said only that they have accounted for a majority of the employees. Among the companies: Banc of America, Thomson Financial, Wachovia Capital Management, Garben-Intercapital Investments and Carr Futures. AON, with 1,100 employees, and Lehman Brothers both refused to release any details. 
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