Show OLD TOWER FAST CRUMBLING landmark i of san juan porto rico undermined by resistless action of the waves the famous haunted watch tower lower of san juan porto rico which for or half a century has fairly reeked with mystery seems to be doomed to disappear beneath the waves which have undermined its foundations this melancholy relic of vanished glory of empire in the west now hangs precariously over the boiling tide rip which has gnawed ceaselessly at its foundations for years originally a part of the outer defense of the great tort fort san cristobal crestobal which was built by the spanish conquistadores to guard san juan from land attack the haunted sentry box Is regarded as one of the sights of the porto rican capital the story of this crumbling bit of masonry runs that within the last years six men have entered the tower and were apparently swallowed up none of the sextet it is declared ever was seen again the first three disappearances of which a record has been kept occurred within the first halt half of the nineteenth century and were separated by considerable intervals the last one being in 1810 IS 10 ten years elapsed and the memory of the mysterious happenings was growing thin when three more men vanished in as many days since then the tower has been shunned as a pestilence but its secret has remained undiscovered all the cases cages were identical in that the missing one was a member of the garrison of san cristobal detailed for night sentry duty on the sea wall |