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.