SALVAGE CORPSMAN IN COMA FOUR YEARS
DIES AT AGE 43
Adam Kupidlowski, Salvage Corp member, who lay unconscious for more than four years after a 1953 collision, died yesterday, in the Armacost Nursing Home. He was 43 years old.
Mr. Kupidlowski suffered severe head injuries when the salvage vehicle in which he was riding, was in a collision with a fire engine responding to an alarm.
One fireman was killed and nine others injured in the crash at Baltimore and Caroline Streets, on April 18, 1953. The two vehicles had been responding to a fire at a small, abandoned building at Eden and Orleans Streets.
A fire department probe followed the collision.
Kupidlowski lay unconscious in Mercy Hospital before he was moved to the nursing home.
Born in Baltimore, the son of the late Wladyslaw and Michalina (nee Filipiak) Kupidlowski, the salvage corpsman had attended Holy Rosary Parochial School. He served in the US Navy throughtout World War II, seeing action in both the Atlantic and Pacific theaters. At the time of the accident, he had been with the Salvage Corp between five and six years.
His home was at 620 South Washington Street.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Mildred Kupidlowski, four brothers and two sisters, John , Leo, Joseph and Louis Kupidlowski, Mrs. Tillie Kowalewski and Mrs. Sophie Strychacz.
Baltimore Sun, 7/7/1957
DIES AT AGE 43
Adam Kupidlowski, Salvage Corp member, who lay unconscious for more than four years after a 1953 collision, died yesterday, in the Armacost Nursing Home. He was 43 years old.
Mr. Kupidlowski suffered severe head injuries when the salvage vehicle in which he was riding, was in a collision with a fire engine responding to an alarm.
One fireman was killed and nine others injured in the crash at Baltimore and Caroline Streets, on April 18, 1953. The two vehicles had been responding to a fire at a small, abandoned building at Eden and Orleans Streets.
A fire department probe followed the collision.
Kupidlowski lay unconscious in Mercy Hospital before he was moved to the nursing home.
Born in Baltimore, the son of the late Wladyslaw and Michalina (nee Filipiak) Kupidlowski, the salvage corpsman had attended Holy Rosary Parochial School. He served in the US Navy throughtout World War II, seeing action in both the Atlantic and Pacific theaters. At the time of the accident, he had been with the Salvage Corp between five and six years.
His home was at 620 South Washington Street.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Mildred Kupidlowski, four brothers and two sisters, John , Leo, Joseph and Louis Kupidlowski, Mrs. Tillie Kowalewski and Mrs. Sophie Strychacz.
Baltimore Sun, 7/7/1957
SALVAGE CORPSMAN IN COMA FOUR YEARS
DIES AT AGE 43
Adam Kupidlowski, Salvage Corp member, who lay unconscious for more than four years after a 1953 collision, died yesterday, in the Armacost Nursing Home. He was 43 years old.
Mr. Kupidlowski suffered severe head injuries when the salvage vehicle in which he was riding, was in a collision with a fire engine responding to an alarm.
One fireman was killed and nine others injured in the crash at Baltimore and Caroline Streets, on April 18, 1953. The two vehicles had been responding to a fire at a small, abandoned building at Eden and Orleans Streets.
A fire department probe followed the collision.
Kupidlowski lay unconscious in Mercy Hospital before he was moved to the nursing home.
Born in Baltimore, the son of the late Wladyslaw and Michalina (nee Filipiak) Kupidlowski, the salvage corpsman had attended Holy Rosary Parochial School. He served in the US Navy throughtout World War II, seeing action in both the Atlantic and Pacific theaters. At the time of the accident, he had been with the Salvage Corp between five and six years.
His home was at 620 South Washington Street.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Mildred Kupidlowski, four brothers and two sisters, John , Leo, Joseph and Louis Kupidlowski, Mrs. Tillie Kowalewski and Mrs. Sophie Strychacz.
Baltimore Sun, 7/7/1957
DIES AT AGE 43
Adam Kupidlowski, Salvage Corp member, who lay unconscious for more than four years after a 1953 collision, died yesterday, in the Armacost Nursing Home. He was 43 years old.
Mr. Kupidlowski suffered severe head injuries when the salvage vehicle in which he was riding, was in a collision with a fire engine responding to an alarm.
One fireman was killed and nine others injured in the crash at Baltimore and Caroline Streets, on April 18, 1953. The two vehicles had been responding to a fire at a small, abandoned building at Eden and Orleans Streets.
A fire department probe followed the collision.
Kupidlowski lay unconscious in Mercy Hospital before he was moved to the nursing home.
Born in Baltimore, the son of the late Wladyslaw and Michalina (nee Filipiak) Kupidlowski, the salvage corpsman had attended Holy Rosary Parochial School. He served in the US Navy throughtout World War II, seeing action in both the Atlantic and Pacific theaters. At the time of the accident, he had been with the Salvage Corp between five and six years.
His home was at 620 South Washington Street.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Mildred Kupidlowski, four brothers and two sisters, John , Leo, Joseph and Louis Kupidlowski, Mrs. Tillie Kowalewski and Mrs. Sophie Strychacz.
Baltimore Sun, 7/7/1957
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