Hundreds of Workers in Towers Missing

Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Co. said fewer than 15 of its 3,700 employees in the World Trade Center are missing after the terrorist attack that destroyed the twin towers.

Some companies, such as Cantor Fitzgerald and Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Inc., were almost wiped out, and Bank of America Corp. said eight out of 408 people there remained unaccounted for. Lehman Bros. Holdings Chief Executive Richard Fuld said one of his company’s 618 World Trade Center employees is unaccounted for.

Morgan Stanley said it created detailed evacuation procedures for its World Trade Center employees after a bomb exploded in the complex garage in 1993. The firm had two employees on every floor responsible for making sure floors were empty.

None of about 700 employees in Cantor Fitzgerald’s offices has been found alive.

Keefe Bruyette is missing more than half of the 170 employees who worked in the towers, and Marsh & McLennan Cos. is missing about 700 employees.