On the night of April 3/4, 1919, against the backdrop of the Hungarian–Romanian War, he and Nicolae Bolcaș were detained in Beiuș by Hungarian guards and taken to Lunca, where they were mutilated, murdered and thrown into a ditch near a stream. They were found with eyes gouged out, their skulls cracked, a mixture of brains, bones, hair and blood in the head area.Papp, p. 254 Ciordaș was buried with military honors on April 25. News of his assassination reached the temporary capital of Sibiu slowly: several days after the fact, the Directing Council named him prefect of Bihor; he would have been the first Romanian officer-holder. He left a wife and two children.Papp, p. 257
