100 YEARS AGO

Saturday, April 10, 1926

Forty-four persons, including one foreigner, Mr. Rettig, a visitor in Japan, were more or less seriously injured yesterday afternoon shortly before five o¡¯clock, when the first accident of any magnitude in its history occurred on the electric train line between Sakuragicho Station and Yokohama Station, resulting in the breaking of a train and a head-on collision of part of the damaged train with another one coming the opposite way.??