Lived For Twenty Years

Lived for Twenty Years

After Both Arms Were Torn Out of Their Sockets,

Death of John Steeb, Jr Who Met with a Fearful Accident at Fosters.

John Steeb, Jr., son of John Steeb, No. 144 Fifth st., died Thursday. The funeral services were held at his parents' residence Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock, and at the Bethlehem Evangelical church at 2:30 o'clock.

The deceased had the sympathy of many on account of the terrible accident that befell him Sept. 21, 1879. He was working at the time in Cornwell Bros.' woolen mill at Delhi. He was an expert machinist. While engaged in fixing the machinery his two arms were caught and jerked out of their sockets, so that it was impossible for any contrivance to be rigged up by which he could help himself.

He was born Dec. 4, 1854, at Huzenbach Ober Amt Freudenstadt, Wuertemberg. With his parents, he came to Ann Arbor in 1867. His parents and one sister, Christine, and two brothers, Michael and George Israel, all of Ann Arbor, survive him.