On September 13, 1899, Henry Hale Bliss, a 69 year old local real estate dealer accompanied by a passenger named "Lee" was knocked from a streetcar at West 74th Street and Central Park West in New York City, as he was alighting from a south bound 8th Avenue trolley car, when an electric-powered taxicab (Automobile No. 43) struck him and he hit the pavement and crushed his head and chest. He was ta...
