Out of three truck loads of cattle on the Great Western Railway two of
the animals were struck dead by the lightning on Monday afternoon, July
5, 1852, not very far from Swindon. What renders it remarkable is, that
one animal only in each of the two trucks was struck, and five or six
animals in each escaped uninjured. The animal killed in one of the
trucks was a bull, the cows escaping injury, and in the other truck it
was a bull or an ox that was killed.