Show PLUNGED TO THE BOTTOM OF SEA A Steamer British King Goes Down 150 Miles South of Sable Island Twentyseven Lives Are Lost and the Remainder of the Crew Saved From an Ocean Grave by Heroic Rescuers Boston Suffering mental nnd physical and numerous acts of heroism hero-Ism In saving lIfo rarely equaled In tho record of tragedies of tho sea attended at-tended the loss of tho Phoenix line steamer British King which on Sunday Sun-day last In the raging Atlantic storm foundered about fifteen miles south ot Sable island nnd carried to death twentyseven members of the crew Thirteen members were rescued from tho sinking vessel by the Leyland liner Bostonian bound from Manchester Man-chester to Boston and eleven by tho tank steamer Mannheim from Rotterdam Rotter-dam to Now York Five others who had been drawn down In tho vortex into which the British King was engulfed en-gulfed were picked up by the Dos tonlan from a frail bit of wreckage which they had grasped after a desperate des-perate struggle for life In the whirlpool whirl-pool Two lifeboats from tho Bostonlau were crushed to fragments and tho volunteer crews which manned them woro thrown Into tho ldgh running seas while engaged In the > work of rescue res-cue but all were safely landed aboard the steamer Tho British King sailed from New York on the 1st for Antwerp with a miscellaneous cargo and 150 cattle Previous to the appearance of the rescuing res-cuing steamers every small boat of tho King had been demolished and thero was no way In which the crow could leave the ship |