The ignition was believed to be caused by an electrical arc between a fallen trolley wire and the rail.

[1] It was so powerful that cars were pulled off tracks and beams were twisted up to 760 feet from the main shaft.

Tytus, was giving other top executives a tour of the new safety equipment at the time of the explosion.

[2] Twenty-four Red Cross nurses, local doctors, and Salvation Army volunteers came to help the injured.

[1] A dozen mules were brought in to retrieve the bodies and wreckage from the mine because it lost power after the explosion.

[5] Seventy-three employees, five officials, and four visitors made up the eighty-two men that died in the disaster.

[4] Sunday Creek Coal Company turned a storage room, pool hall, and store into temporary morgues.

[3] The disaster attracted national press coverage and international attention, and it prompted improvement of Ohio's mine safety laws in 1931.

A monument was erected in 1975 near the Millfield disaster site with the names of the men that were lost and the smokestack at Mine No.

[3] The Millfield Mine Memorial Committee was started in 1973 to honor the dead and remember the tragedy in their community.

[3] Sigmund Kozma, who was 16 at the time he survived the explosion, was recently identified as the last living survivor of the Millfield Mine disaster.