Lisa Wilkinson
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sees that Evelyn's name is not on there.
Wally and Annie and the family back in Hoylton, Evelyn's name is not on there.
So they think that Evelyn hasn't made it.
And so many people who are at the dock in New York don't know if they're about to have a family member, a loved one emerge or not.
Well, she had virtually no money, as was the practice at the time.
If you were crew on one of these liners, the minute you are no longer working because your ship has been sunk or it's been in a crash, your wage stops.
Oh, you're kidding.
Just appalling.
That was the way it worked in the day.
Clearly there was no union looking after them at that point.
And so Evelyn finally gets to the front of the queue with just enough money to be able to send a Marconi gram.
So she has enough money for two Marconi grams, both of which have exactly the same message.
One going to William.
and one going to Wally and Annie back in Hoylton.
They say the same thing.
Two words, safe, stop, Evelyn, stop.
They managed to reunite in London.
Again, Molly Brown was one of the ones that insisted that the White Star Line, who'd completely abandoned all of the surviving crew, I mean, most of the crew did not make it, but those that did, they just left them in New York.
Molly Brown made sure that they got safe passage and
back to the UK.