Newspaper: 412 People Inside Club On Night Of GREAT WHITE Concert Fire

An investigation by The Providence Journal has identified 412 people who, according to legal documents, survivors and others, were in The Station nightclub when it caught fire on Feb. 20, killing 100 and injuring more than 200 others.

The number exceeds all of the various limits on the club's capacity set by the Town of West Warwick. Those limits ranged from as low as 253 to as high as 404, according to town documents.

The total is also greater than the number officials have said were in the club when it burned. In public comments just after the fire, Governor Carcieri estimated the crowd at 350.

While officials have disclosed the names of the 100 who died, the state has not provided the names of survivors. The Providence Journal has filed suit to compel the governor's office to release its information about who else was inside The Station at the time of the fire. That matter is pending in Superior Court.

With no official list, The Journal set out to identify the survivors and count the number of people who were inside the club at the time of the fire.

Journal reporters — more than 60 were assigned to the project — tried to contact survivors to confirm that they were at the nightclub when the fire broke out. In cases where survivors could not be contacted, The Journal verified their names in other ways.

The 412 names include:

100 who died in or after the fire.
192 survivors interviewed by The Journal.
57 identified by other survivors.
49 identified by lawyers.
7 identified by relatives.
5 confirmed by hospitals.
2 who took pictures inside the club.